SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA — South Korea said Thursday it would create a joint military unit with the United States, as a report suggested the contingent would target North Korea’s weapons of mass destruction if a full-scale conflict broke out.
The mechanized unit led by a US major general will be set up in the first half of next year, the South’s defense ministry said, as part of elaborate preparations for any future war between the two Koreas.
“It will be the first combined field combat unit to carry out wartime operations,” a defense ministry spokesman said without elaborating on its mission.
He declined to confirm a Yonhap news agency report that its remit would include eliminating weapons of mass destruction in the nuclear-armed North if war breaks out.
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