10/22/26 National Security and Korean News and Commentary
10.22.2026 at 06:13pm
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National Security News:
1. Pentagon looks to build a deep-cover spy program to confront China
2. Putin Nears a Prize: Restoring Ties With the U.S. While Giving Up Nothing
3. U.S. and Israel Draw Up Plans for Renewed Strikes on Iran After Elections
4. Iran’s Fleet of Shadow Tankers Has Run Out of Oil After Monthslong U.S. Blockade
5. Correcting Technocentric Myopia: Rebalancing Maritime Intelligence to Counter Shadow Fleet Networks
6. China’s Gulf oil imports forecast to approach pre-Iran war high as shipments rebound
7. A Less-Is-More Strategy for America
8. The Chokepoint Trap: How the Search for Economic Security Will End in Geopolitical Calamity
9. A Less-Is-More Strategy for America: The Folly of Expanding the Exhausted U.S. Military
10. The West Is Thinking Too Small About Ukraine’s Victory
11. Deception in Mass Autonomous Warfare
12. Are US Security Partnerships Poisoned Chalices? Implications for US Strategy
13. Could US advances in drone command give it an edge over the PLA in a Taiwan conflict?
14. Ahead of Communist Party plenum, Xi Jinping warns that China faces a ‘new Long March’
15. Establishing Battery Supply Chain Resilience for Drones
16. The U.S. Army’s Pacific Strategy Depends on Allies
17. America’s Counter-Drone Authority Is Real, The Capacity Isn’t Yet
18. Pentagon AI oversight office struggles to keep pace with department’s ambitions, GAO finds
19. Tehran is a Different Beast Now
20. How Elon Musk gained so much power over U.S. security interests
21. How China Sustains Russia’s War
Korean News:
1. Key US Ally Wants To Take Wartime Military Command Away From American General
2. US troops in South Korea must be ready for missions beyond peninsula, commander says
3. North Korea Wants Security Talks With the US, Not Nuclear Talks
4. DMZ dispute exposes deeper fault lines in US-South Korea alliance
5. The U.S. Army’s Pacific Strategy Depends on Allies
6. Top U.S. envoy cites ‘turbulence’ in S. Korea-U.S. alliance amid rift in security, trade priorities
7. S. Korea, U.S. hold combined river-crossing drills
8. Lazarus hackers use post-quantum cryptography for malware delivery
9. UNC deputy commander notes need for ‘careful, transparent’ approach following DMZ mine blast
10. “Mandatory Unification Education in Elementary, Middle, and High Schools Must Eliminate ‘Fear of Unification’”
11. How Kim Jong Un’s state is taming trade outside North Korea’s general markets
12. Kim Yo Jong denounces South Korean lawmaker who criticized loudspeaker plans
13. North Korea’s Kim Yo Jong says border loudspeakers ready within days
14. S. Korea to send letter to UNSC urging N. Korea to take responsibility for DMZ mine blast
15. US says wartime command transfer to South Korea remains conditions based
16. Fate unknown of many returned to DPR Korea from China: UN independent experts
17. Tracing ideas on North Korea
18. Japan-ROK technology cooperation reinforces trilateral missile-tracking network with U.S.
