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S. Korea wants to take wartime military control from U.S.
 South Korea's president said Wednesday that he hopes for for an agreement this year on taking back wartime control of the country's military from the United States. South Korea transferred control of its forces to a U.S.-led U.N. command in 1950 that helped the country repel invading communists from North Korea during the Korean War. The conflict ended in a 1953 truce, but control over the South's forces remained with an American general as chief of the U.N. command, or the South Korea-U.S. Combined Forces Command. In 1994, South Korea regained peacetime control of its military, but the chief of U.S. forces in South Korea is still able to take control during wartime.Posted by: Fred 2006-01-25 |
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