3/1/26 National Security and Korean News and Commentary

1. Statement by Chief Pentagon Spokesman, Sean Parnell, on ‘Aligning Senior Service College Opportunities With American Values’

2. Why the U.S. and Israel Struck When They Did: A Chance to Kill Iran’s Leaders

3. Opinion | Trump’s Doctrine in Iran and Beyond

4. Iranians Under Attack Are Afraid, Angry or Joyful

5. How Trump’s Iran gamble breaks from past regime overthrows

6. Six key lines from Trump’s statement on Iran strikes

7. The C.I.A. Helped Pinpoint a Gathering of Iranian Leaders. Then Israel Struck.

8. Retired Vice Admiral gives military perspective on US-Israel attacks on Iran

9. Trump’s current war on Iran picks up where a longstanding enmity left off

10. Iran Got Trump All Wrong By Kenneth F. McKenzie Jr.

11. Russia Linked to 151 Hybrid Warfare Operations in Europe Since 2022, Dutch Think Tank Says

12, ‘I Have Agreed to Talk’ –  Trump tells The Atlantic that Iranian leaders want to resume negotiations.

13. Why Khamenei Is Dead

14. Iran’s regime was built for survival and a long war is now likely

15. A Simplified Framework for Assessing China’s Four Warfares and the Need for Institutional Economic Statecraft in a Hybrid Era

16. The Significance of Zhang Youxia’s Downfall

17. Trump’s Iran Gamble

18. 2 Olympic Gold Medalists Show the Mixed Results of China’s Efforts to Bring Back Diaspora Talent

19. Are gamers the best drone fliers? The U.S. Army held a competition to find out

1. Full text of President Lee Jae Myung’s speech on 107th March 1 Independence Movement Day

2. 6 Takeaways From North Korea’s 9th Party Congress

3. Kim Jong Un at party congress builds a wall with South Korea.

4. N. Korea ships 33,000 containers of weapons to Russia: Seoul

5. N Korea condemns U.S.-Israel attack on Iran as ‘gangster-like conduct’

6. Lee urges N. Korea to resume dialogue, join in shaping ‘new future’

7. U.S. Sends ‘FAFO’ Message with AI-Driven Leadership Strikes

8. S. Korean companies scramble to respond to Middle East crisis

9. S. Korean activist denied entry into Japan ahead of Independence Movement Day

10. Tearing down South Korea’s information wall

11. Here’s how Army plans to deploy AI, drones to breach enemy minefields

12. Exports jump 29 pct to record Feb. high on surging chip demand

13. Kim Jong Un takes daughter to firing range with new rifles after Party Congress