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| ROK Asks U.S. to Delay Troop Control Handover Again |
| 2013-07-20 |
| Defense Minister Kim Kwan-jin has asked his U.S. counterpart Chuck Hagel to postpone the transfer of full operational control of Korean troops to Seoul. Kim made the request when he met Hagel in Singapore last month. The handover is scheduled for 2015 and spells the end for Combined Forces Command under U.S. leadership. Officials from the two sides are discussing the matter further, with a view to the two defense chiefs wrapping up discussions in October. A senior U.S. Defense Department official told Yonhap News on Tuesday, "I know that has been proposed by the South Korean government, and we are looking at that, working with the South Korean government." The official added that U.S. President Barack Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry have been briefed on the request. "Kim proposed to the U.S. to pursue the handover of wartime operational control with caution because of worsening tensions after North KoreaÂ’s third nuclear test," a government official here said. President Park Geun-hye and chief presidential security advisor Kim Jang-soo both apparently want the handover postponed. |
| Posted by:Steve White |
| #2 Finally recognizing the 'pay-as-you-go' corruption of the ranks? |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2013-07-20 12:51 |
| #1 Not a good sign. More bad signs of pending conflict ... * STARS-N-STRIPES > [PACOM Chief Locklear] "MORE NORTH KOREA PROVOCATIONS LIKELY". * TOPIX > [Asahi News Network] MANILA: CHINA TURNING SOUTH CHINA SEA INTO ITS "LAKE", SAYS PHILIPPINES. * SAME > ABE: NO DEALING/COMPROMISE ON DIAOYU ISLANDS. * GLOBAL TIMES > OPED: JAPAN PM VOWS END TO ARTICLE 9, of Japan's post-WW2 Constitution * PRAVDA, FREEREPUBLIC > JAPAN GIVES UP ITS REPUTATION FOR MILITARY POWER. * WAFF > [StrategyPage] THE US NAVY HURRIES [UAV/Drone-led] PREPARATIONS FOR [anti-SLBM, TLCM] WAR AGZ CHINA. * TIME.COM > CHINA FINDS A GAP IN JAPAN'S MARITIME CHOKEPOINTS. Le Perouse = Soya Strait/Sakhalin shennanigans + PCorrect post-1945 UNCLOS Legalisms come back to threaten Nipponland. * DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > [Phil Star] PHILIPPPINES URGES CHINA: BE A "RESPONSIBLE NATION". RELATED SAME > CHINA MUST RESPECT [International = UNCLOS] RULE OF LAW - DFA. * SAME > [Inquirer] PHILIPPINE ARMY TO SHIFT TO [anti-China] TERRITORIAL DEFENSE. PHIL NOLCOM [Northern Luzon Command] CHIEF. PHIL helping to protect US CVNS, BGS from China's ASBMS + Motherly PLA Airborne??? * SAME > CHINA IN US$5.0BILYUHN DRIVE TO DEVELOP DISPUTED EAST CHINA SEA GAS FIELD, in disputed EEZ/SEZ also claimed by Japan. versus * DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > JAPAN SURVEY SHIPS PREPARE FOR DEPLOYMENT, TENSIONS WID CHINA RISING. Two Fleets in very very close proximity to each other above one UW/Seafloor Gas Field. [THE SIMPSON'S "BURNS SLANT OIL DRILLING COMPANY" here]. "Say goodbye to the Sun, Springfield"! * SAME > KOREAN REUNIFICATION: DON'T BE SURPRISED IFF IT HAPPENS - FORBES. But first "the China Question", i.e. come circa 2018, will "post-US" wannabe, anti-Containment, anti- First Island Chain Beijing accept a Nuclear DPRK, Nuclear ROK, + Nuclear Nippon wid Strong Military??? Given also the budding Nuclear Islamist-Jihadist = Global Nuclear Jihad threat??? First thingys must come first. * SAME > CHINA GETS TRICOMALEE PORT - THIRD PORT IN SRI LANKA. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2013-07-20 00:51 |