Officials from Seoul and Washington are to meet next week to discuss wartime operational control of South Korean troops, the South Korean Defense Ministry said on Friday.
Last year Seoul asked that the OPCON transfer, currently scheduled for December 2015, be delayed yet again. The request, citing North Korea’s third nuclear test earlier 2013, said that the situation on the Korean Peninsula had changed since the 2015 date was agreed upon.
Officials from Seoul and Washington are to meet next week to discuss wartime operational control of South Korean troops, the South Korean Defense Ministry said on Friday.
Last year Seoul asked that the OPCON transfer, currently scheduled for December 2015, be delayed yet again. The request, citing North Korea’s third nuclear test earlier 2013, said that the situation on the Korean Peninsula had changed since the 2015 date was agreed upon.
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