10/21/26 National Security and Korean News and Commentary
10.21.2026 at 05:59pm
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National Security News:
1. Why AI’s Deepest Mind Believes the World Is About to Change Radically
2. Military leaders brace for release of Hegseth’s Afghanistan review
3. Calling Putin a ‘Humanitarian,’ Witkoff Thanks Him for Releasing an American
4. U.S. restores intelligence sharing with Ukraine, Zelensky says
5. Exclusive | Musk Ordered Starlink Slowdown That Blindsided Ukraine
6. Empires of AI: The Rise and Fall of a New Global Order
7. Exclusive | Airfield Attack Marked Opening Shot in Putin’s Stepped-Up Sabotage Campaign
8. Chinese AI Tool Linked to Hacks in Japan
9. The Godfather of American Foreign Policy Realism Speaks to Today’s World
10. Why Is Strategy So Difficult? It can be studied, but rarely mastered.
11. Kala Chapra and Lawrence of Arabia
12. Maintaining Freedom of Action: Civil Affairs and Consequence Management in Afghanistan
13. The War on Woke at West Point
14. More Oil Is Now Coming Out of the Persian Gulf Than Before the Iran War
15. Thymos and American Foreign Policy
16. The U.S. military needs to reorganize.
17. Myths of Battlefield Triumph Are Destroying the U.S. Military
18. Ukrainian hexacopter drone executes world-first aerial medevac
19. The evolution of China’s active defence doctrine
20. Tip of the spear, or stranded on beaches? Chinese planners dissect USMC Pacific posture
21. Canadian Officers Don’t Want to Serve in the U.S. Anymore
Korean News:
1. North Korean workers spotted at Russian drone hub, researcher says
2. S. Korea says wartime control transfer will keep U.S. alliance intact
3. Kim Jong-un goes shopping to prove he’s alive
4. N.K. leader’s sister, military marshal inspect border fortification site, warn of ‘overwhelming’ responses
5. Rumors of Kim Jong Un’s demise: Are we ready for what comes next?
6. Chinese AI Tool Linked to Hacks in Japan
7. USFK commander calls for more frequent combined drills with S. Korea throughout year
8. Reading Pyongyang Through the Cracks of the International System
9. Canada can help Seoul counter North Korea’s new ‘ways of war’: Military chief
10. Nearly all North Korean websites go offline in mysterious outage
11. Ex-ROK officials get suspended sentences over North Koreans’ forced repatriation
12. US cites evolving ‘threat environment’ amid debate over OPCON transition to S. Korea
13. 12,000 North Korean Workers Sent to Russia to Help Produce Shahed Drones
14 Across the Border: North Koreans Work on the Southern Border Fence
15. Brunson refuses to back down on his position on OPCON transfer
16. Korea-US alliance on the brink: Readiness should come first
17. Tale of two bridges: Why China can’t bring Pyongyang to the table
18. Two Part Podcast on the Korean Situation and the Pursuit of a Free and Unified Korea.
