4/22/26 National Security and Korean News and Commentary

1. Pentagon details record $1.5 trillion budget request

2. Iran War Live Updates: Trump Extends Iran Cease-Fire With Peace Talks in Limbo

3. U.S., Iran Delay Talks in High-Stakes Game of Chicken

4. Opinion | A Quiet U.S. Favor for Xi Jinping

5. How America can fight back against enemy propaganda

6. China Doesn’t Always Win When the U.S. Loses

7. Trump Is Said to Be in Talks to Send Afghans Who Aided U.S. Forces to Congo

8. Field Observation: The Strait Became the Instrument

9. How Asia Should Deal With the ‘Malacca Dilemma’

10. Assessing US Cyber Power: Capabilities, Fragmentation, and the Challenge of Coordination

11. Book Review | Flawed Strategy: Why Smart Leaders Make Bad Decisions

12. Resilience Without Capacity: The Fatal Flaw in America’s New Cyber Strategy

13. Why Iran Metabolizes the Pressure that Broke Venezuela

14. Designed to Lose: The Institutional Features that Undermine US Irregular Warfare

15. Winning without fighting: political warfare as America’s grand strategy

1. North Korea as It Is: The Case for a Cold Peace

2.  USFK commander says THAAD remains in Korea, ‘munitions’ await move

3. The fecklessness of Foreign Affairs

4. North Korean hackers tied to $290M crypto heist, firm says

5. South Korea opposition leader defends U.S. trip amid criticism

6. China blocks South Korean spy chief visit amid Taiwan tensions

7. How Asia’s Biggest Nations Are Riding Out the Energy Shock

8. Beijing-Pyongyang Thaw Leaves North Koreans No Escape

9. The Blogs: North Korean Cluster Munitions to Female Succession

10. Anduril, HD Hyundai expand partnership with first autonomous surface vessel in production

11. Defense minister denies reports USFK commander protested over alleged leak of U.S. intel on N.K. nuke facility

12. USFK commander warns against ‘political expediency’ in rushed OPCON transfer