2/28/26 National Security and Korean News and Commentary

1. Exclusive: Prior to Iran attacks, CIA assessed Khamenei could be replaced by hardline IRGC elements if killed, sources say

2. Opinion | Trump Enforces His Red Line on Iran

3. Opinion | The Ayatollah Is Choosing War (published prior to the launch of Epic Fury)

4. A Timeline of U.S. and Iran Relations, From Allies to Enemies

5.Trump Rolls the Dice on Regime Change With a Massive Attack on Iran

6. Attack on Iran: Israel Confident Khamenei Is Dead — Live Updates

7. Spotlight on Admiral Samuel J Paparo, the man who could call the shots in any future US-China conflict

8. Weekend Interview: Cleo Paskal on China’s Corruption-Driven Push into the Pacific

9. Chinese Online Influence Operation Spreads Anti-American Conspiracy Claims

10. The Pentagon Can’t Afford This A.I. Fight

11. Radio Free Asia resumes broadcasts to China after Trump cuts forced near closure

12. Republicans Press Trump to Kill U.K. Plan For Diego Garcia Military Base

13. Iranian sleeper agents have infiltrated the US. Now ex-FBI boss warns of imminent terror attacks on American soil

14. Pentagon approves OpenAI safety red lines after dumping Anthropic

15.  An Iranian Network Is Ready to Act

16. The Failed Armed Expedition to Topple Cuba’s Regime

17. China Wins the Pentagon-Anthropic Brawl

18. Rebuilding Western Rare Earth Processing Power

19. America’s new unipolar moment

20. Taiwan, the Long Game Not Invasion

21. Three Massive Questions Concerning Trump’s War in Iran

1. Between the Fortress and the Cage: Watching Tehran, Thinking of Pyongyang

2. What Images of Kim Jong Un’s Daughter at Military Parade Tell Us About Her Rise

3. Why ‘twin look’ of North Korea’s Kim Jong-un, daughter sparks succession talk

4. North Korean leader presents new sniper rifles to party officials

5. Kim Jong Un’s Ninth Party Congress Personnel Shakeup

6. Kim’s daughter is a princess – but not necessarily crown princess

7. [Editorial] Kim declares South no longer ‘fellow countrymen’; is Seoul’s outreach still viable?

8. Expert Takes on North Korea’s Ninth Party Congress – 38 North

9. 29 photos show North Korea wrapping up Party Congress with extravagant parade

10. Why an American once detained in North Korea wants to broadcast into the country

11. N.K. leader’s sister confirmed to serve as director of ruling party’s general affairs department

12. What we didn’t see at the Party Congress, from Kim Jong Un’s child to nuke power

13. N. Korea’s Kim uses party congress to consolidate his long-term grip on power: Seoul