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63 North Korean defectors enter South in first half of 2026: Seoul
Sixty-three North Koreans defected to South Korea between January and June, a roughly 34% decline from the same period last year, the Unification Mini...
Aug 06, 2026 · StaffOriginally on Wedgetail
The Blood Price: In Israel, Military Sacrifice Is Becoming Political Power
In late June, cadets at the Israeli military’s officer training school sat through a lecture by Ofer Winter, a retired brigadier general and a polariz...
Aug 06, 2026 · StaffOriginally on Wedgetail
Russia to deploy North Korean missile unit and launchers to Ukraine border: Kyiv
North Korea could soon send a dedicated missile unit to a western Russian region bordering Ukraine, according to Kyiv’s military intelligence agency, ...
Aug 06, 2026 · StaffOriginally on Wedgetail
Instrumentalised Migration and Russia’s ‘Disposable Agents’
Instrumentalised migration and Russia’s recruitment of disposable agents exploit the same European weakness: treating deniable acts of coercion as iso...
Aug 05, 2026 · StaffOriginally on Wedgetail
After Ceuta, Europe is once again mired in migration chaos of its own making
Anti-immigration critics seized on the Ceuta migrant situation as evidence of the failure of soft policies, but in reality the bloc has become far mor...
Aug 05, 2026 · StaffOriginally on Wedgetail
Fault Lines – Scarborough Shoal, South Korea at RIMPAC, shipriders
Welcome to the latest edition of ASPI’s Fault Lines. Every fortnight, ASPI’s Defence Strategy Program monitors the actions and developments shaping th...
Aug 05, 2026 · StaffOriginally on Wedgetail
Beyond Hormuz: The Future of Maritime Chokepoints
Iran’s closure of the Strait of Hormuz and efforts to extract payments for safe passage — plus, more recently, the Houthis’ move to attack Saudi shipp...
Aug 05, 2026 · StaffOriginally on Wedgetail
There Will be Unseen Costs to be Paid over the War in Iran. Who is Weighing Them?
EXPERT INTERVIEW – With an interim agreement expected as early as today between the U.S. and Iran aimed at reopening the Strait of Hormuz to shipping ...
Aug 05, 2026 · StaffOriginally on Wedgetail
Immigration Policy: The Backdoor to Transnational Repression
Citizen Lab researchers write that restrictive immigration policies are incompatible with attempts to counter transnational repression. The post Immig...
Aug 05, 2026 · StaffOriginally on Wedgetail
Unification Minister urges South Korea to stop calling North the ‘main enemy’
South Korea should ditch its designation of North Korea as the “main enemy,” Unification Minister Chung Dong-young said Wednesday, arguing that replac...
Aug 05, 2026 · StaffOriginally on Wedgetail
Vietnam to honor North Korean pilots killed in war with first-ever memorial
Vietnam will build its first memorial honoring North Korean troops who died during the Vietnam War and restore an existing cemetery for the DPRK’s war...
Aug 05, 2026 · StaffOriginally on Wedgetail
Why Trump’s Israel Normalization Demand May Kill the Saudi Nuclear Deal
Only days after the Trump administration celebrated what it called a landmark civilian nuclear agreement with Saudi Arabia, the president himself appe...
Aug 05, 2026 · StaffOriginally on Wedgetail