10/15/26 National Security and Korean News and Commentary
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National Security News:
1. Hegseth: Autonomous Warfare Command Has Always Been End State
2. ‘You’re a coward’: Protesters heckle Hegseth during AUSA panel
3. Opinion | The Pentagon’s New ‘Distinguished Military Colleges’
4. Opinion | America Needs More Capital
5. Majority of Americans oppose public executions: poll
6. Top Army general reassures defense industry after Driscoll, George exits
7. View: Xi’s ‘death watch’ will become a global spectacle
8. How non-state alliances are reshaping the global order
9. US military weighs use of ‘mother of all bombs’ in potential future strikes on Iran, CNN says
10. Volodymyr Zelenskyy feels ‘betrayed’ by Donald Trump over Starlink access
11. Exclusive | Starlink Suspicions and a Frantic Warning: Inside Trump’s Turn on Zelensky
12. How autonomous weapons are changing the way brigades fight
13. The Pentagon’s Drone Revolution Starts With Soldiers
14. The Paradox of Victory: When Winning in Ukraine Raises the Nuclear Stakes
15. US Army expands drone marketplace to 33 nations
16. Trump Cancels Plans for Livestreamed Execution of Fort Hood Shooter
17. How Sudan Became a Laboratory for Drone Warfare, Thanks to Abu Dhabi
18. China’s Military Expansion in Southeast Asia Masks a More Complicated Reality
19. Ceuta and the Politics of Not Naming
20. Special Forces in China’s Nuclear and Missile Operations
21. Maven & Minab: Untangling the Machinery of a Targeting Failure
22. How Do You Pick a Good General?
Korean News:
1. U.S. to Drop Charges Against Ex-C.I.A. Analyst Over Aid to South Korea
2. Human rights abuses in drone production at Yelabuga: How China, Iran, and North Korea are enabling the Russian war machine | George W. Bush Presidential Center
3. HRNK: “north Korean Workers at Russia’s Alabuga ‘Drone Hub’…Groups of 100 Spotted”
4. ‘Moving goalposts’ could make OPCON transfer impossible, Seoul official warns
5. The changing character of war and Korean politics: Is the ROK/U.S. alliance heading into a ‘perfect storm?’
6. How North Korean missiles found their way into Houthi hands
7. S. Korea says conditions-based OPCON transfer ‘never’ possible if conditions keep changing
8. North Korea tests submarine-launched cruise missiles
9. South Korea’s U.N. envoy says response to North Korean mines undecided
10. S. Korean minister challenges YouTube claim of daughter in North Korea
11. Bosnian arms dealer gets prison time over plan to buy North Korean missiles
12. N. Korea could bolster drone capabilities through workers at Russian factory: report
13. Defense minister says S. Korea conveys concerns over USFK chief’s OPCON remarks
14. Defense ministry refutes Pyongyang’s claim questioning Seoul’s test of hypersonic glide vehicle
