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| Korea, U.S. Ready to Discuss Transfer of Wartime Command |
| 2003-03-01 |
| South Korea and the United States will be discussing how to increase the former's role in their bilateral military alliance, including the transfer of wartime command to the South Korean side, a senior Defense Ministry official said Thursday after a meeting with his U.S. counterpart. Pentagon officials are active about discussing relocation of a U.S. Army garrison from downtown Seoul, and size readjustments in U.S. Forces Korea (USFK) will call for revisions in land lease agreements with the United States, Assistant Defense Minister for Policy Cha Young-koo said. Sounds like a good idea. Tell 'em it's their problem and pull our forces out... |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |
| #4 Like the song said, "don't know what you got, 'til it's gone" |
| Posted by: RW 2003-03-02 06:21:41 |
| #3 Who gives a damn about Korea? All their stuff by Samsung, Kia, Daewoo, Goldstar and all the rest are crap anyway. If S. Koreans value their freedom, then it's time for them to prove it by taking up more responsibility for it themselves. |
| Posted by: Bomb-a-rama 2003-03-02 04:30:20 |
| #2 Ahh, but won't China be salivating that we're moving them out and start extending influence? |
| Posted by: Anonymous 2003-03-01 23:18:22 |
| #1 When I was there in '88, they began discussion to relocate HQ 8th Army from its Yongson compound in Seoul to another location. Here were are 15 years later. Personally, I didn't think it was good policy to maintain such a large base in a foreign capital and it didn't help a whole lot that the 4 million residents of Seoul were stacked up in multi-storied housing when some idiot constructed a full 18 hole golf course on the compound. Its like Central Park in NYC, but only foreigners have access. It was a real unnecessary in your face gesture. |
| Posted by: Don 2003-03-01 20:04:42 |