5/5/26 National Security and Korean News and Commentary
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National Security News:
1. Defining Cognitive Warfare: A NDAA Mandate Response
2. When drones dominate the battlefield, distance no longer matters – opinion
3. Eerie Company: A New Threat at the Joint Multinational Readiness Center
4. The Corridor Architecture of Global Power
5. Attacks on U.S. Warships in Strait Test Trump’s Desire to End Iran War
6. Iran Is Using Its 1980s Playbook, Plus Drones, to Cripple Global Shipping
7. China Steps Up U.S. Sanctions Fight, Defying Blacklisting Over Iranian Oil
8. China unveils new naval defence systems as drones change nature of war at sea
9. Army considers letting AI agents operate autonomously in cyber defense after wargame with tech executives
10. America’s Air Superiority Is Losing Altitude
11. The Return of Japanese Hard Power
12. Trump’s China Trap: Why Xi Keeps Winning the Summitry Game
13. From ‘Unconditional Surrender’ to ‘Please Make a Deal’
14. To Defend the Innocent: A Look into the Life of a Karen Resistance Soldier
15. Why Xi’s Search for Loyalty is Strangling the PLA’s Effectiveness
16. US Army fires Tomahawk missile from new Typhon launcher during Philippines drill
17. Taipei is ‘Fiddling While Rome Burns’
18. Autonomy, Robotics, and Predictive Analytics: Sustainment’s Technology Trifecta and the Future of War
19. Yes, Reality Demands More Guns, Larger Guns, Everywhere
Korean News:
1. Seoul debases its reputation as middle power
2. What happened to denuclearizing North Korea?
3. When drones dominate the battlefield, distance no longer matters – opinion
4. Drone strike near DPRK embassy dims prospects for a Kim Jong Un visit to Moscow
5. S. Korea says likely to take days to analyze cause of fire on HMM-operated vessel in Strait of Hormuz
6. Special counsel says signs found of martial law preparations since early 2024
7. 3 Army officers dismissed from military service; 1 removed over martial law involvement
8. Trump-Kim meeting ‘not currently’ scheduled for upcoming Asia trip: White House official
9. Trump says Iran fired at S. Korean vessel, urges Seoul to join Strait of Hormuz mission
10. Hegseth urges S. Korea to ‘step up’ to help reopen Strait of Hormuz
11. N. Korean women’s football club to travel to S. Korea for regional tournament
12. South Korea’s Survival Strategy Amid U.S. Unrivaled Dominance
13. Korea reviews joining US-led Hormuz operation
14. Pyongyang calling: North Korea shows off own-brand phones
15. Fear from a vibrating cellphone: A North Korean defector’s tale of grief
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