US: Wartime Control Goes to Seoul 'When Conditions Are Met'
Seoul says it is coordinating a target year for the transfer as Washington insists the handover will come only after agreed conditions are met.
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The U.S. Department of Defense announced that it has decided to postpone the South Korea-U.S. Security Consultative Meeting (SCM), originally scheduled for this year, to early next year. This marks the first time in 28 years, since 1998, that the annual, highest-level security consultative body between the South Korean and U.S. defense ministers has been postponed beyond the scheduled year. A U.S. Department of Defense official stated on the 27t…
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South Korea wants to take back wartime command of its troops from the United States within the next two years, but analysts say Washington is refusing to commit to a date to keep a hold on a military it sees as vital to countering China. The dispute is over wartime operational control, known as OPCON, which the US has held since shortly after the outbreak of the Korean war in 1950. If fighting were to break out again under the current arrangemen…
It is increasingly likely that the annual ROK-U.S. Security Consultative Meeting will be postponed to early next year due to disagreements between the two countries regarding the verification of conditions for the transfer of wartime operational control (OPCON). The two nations are facing difficulties in coordinating official schedules as they differ in their views on issues such as whether the verification of full operational capability has bee…
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