10/25/26 National Security and Korean News and Commentary
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National Security News:
1. A New Level of Threat and Fear Risks Pushing the U.S. and Iran Back to Full War
2. Pentagon drafts Iran attack plans as Tehran threatens aggressive retaliation
3. U.S. Allies Race to Escape SpaceX’s Orbit
4. Power Outages Leave Kyiv Dreading Its Worst Winter of the War
5. The fastest arms race is happening in the electromagnetic spectrum
6. U.S. Evacuates Mideast Outposts After Suspected Iranian Plot to Target Americans
7. US military needs ‘urgent revolutionary institutional change’ to prepare for modern war, Petraeus says
8. An Army colonel who stuck to his principles, even when it cost him a dream
9. Taiwan says China using militia boats to expand ‘battlefield preparation’ in western Pacific
10. Trump’s Capitulation to Putin Is Undermining U.S. National Security by Michael McFaul
11. Elon Musk Says Ukraine Violated Starlink’s Rules
12. Governance Is Steering: What Authoritarian AI Teaches U.S. National Security About Cognitive Warfare
13. Disinformation in practice: Threats, actors, mechanisms, and constraints according to practitioners
14. Paid to Post: Mapping the Political Influencer Industry
15. French protests largely peaceful after last weekend’s demonstrations
16. Opinion | Iran war fever is rising again. The battlespace has changed.
17. Opinion | The best defense against bad AI is more good AI
Korean News:
1. North Korea’s Secretive Prison Camps: Building The Case For Accountability
2. North Korea and Iran: Do we have strategic coherence?
3. (News Focus) What’s next for Trump’s Korea policy after U.S. midterms? Experts assess alliance friction, N.K. diplomacy
4. Footage released of huge S. Korean national flag on Dokdo Island
5. Lee says S. Korea emerging as global economic leader on record current account surplus
6. U.N. official thanks S. Korea for helicopter donation to Kenya for peacekeeping operations
7. North Korea may be the biggest winner of Russia’s war in Ukraine
8. EU sees Korea as ‘trusted partner’ in evolving Indo-Pacific strategy
9. [COVER STORY] Kim Jong-un’s China trip reaffirms ‘blood ties’ as Beijing watches Moscow
10. Kim Jong-un is ‘dead’ again: Why rumors about North Korean leaders never die
11. [ED] Kim’s China visit must lead to restraint
12. Seoul’s useless placation is a warning for all US trade partners
