By MICHELLE TAN
The US and South Korea have delayed transferring wartime operational control of allied forces by taking on a “conditions-based approach” and scrapping the previously set deadline of 2015.
Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel and Korean Minister of National Defense Han Min-koo made the announcement Thursday during a joint press briefing at the Pentagon following the 46th annual Security Consultative Meeting.
South Korea was scheduled to take operational control of the two nation’s forces, in the event of a war, by the end of 2015.
Now, no new date will be set. Instead, the two nations are working to “ensure when the transfer does occur, Korean forces have the necessary capability to address an intensifying North Korean threat,” Hagel said.
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