South Korea Reaffirms Military Independence Push After Trump Orders Reduced Drills
South Korean President Lee Jae Myung reaffirmed his push for South Korea to regain wartime operational control of its military from the United States, after President Trump announced scaled-back joint military drills. According to AntiWar.com, Lee restated his commitment to the transfer at a cabinet meeting Tuesday [1]. The United States has held wartime operational control of South Korea’s military since the Korean War, which ended in a 1953 armistice rather than a peace treaty. South Korea took peacetime operational control in 1994, according to AntiWar.com [1].
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