• Military

• WMD Menu                           

• Introduction
• Systems
• Facilities
• Agencies
• Operations
• Countries
• Hot Documents
• News
• Reports
• Policy
• Budget
• Congress
• Links

• Intelligence
• Homeland Security
• Space

Minju Joson on Deceptive Transfer of "Right to Command Wartime Operations"

Korean Central News Agency of DPRK via Korea News Service (KNS)

   Pyongyang, March 13 (KCNA) -- The transfer of the "right to command wartime operations", agreed upon between the U.S. and south Korean authorities, is nothing but a clumsy farce to mislead the domestic and foreign opinion and a product of the dangerous plot to escalate their moves for war.
    Minju Joson Tuesday says this in a signed commentary.
    The U.S. seeks to set up what is called "consultative body in form of the military cooperation headquarters," which will replace the south Korea-U.S. "Combined Forces Command" to be dissolved, and through it, keep holding the control over the south Korean army under the pretext of "combined operations", the paper points out, and says:
    Such scheme was intensively manifested at the 38th south Korea-U.S. "annual security consultative meeting" held in Washington in October last year. At the meeting the U.S. insisted on the importance of such "combined defence system" as the formation of the "military cooperation headquarters" for joint operations and the maintenance of the south Korea-U.S. "mutual defense pact" in a purpose to keep its presence on the Korean Peninsula though the "right to command wartime operations" will be transferred to south Korea.
    The U.S. has also blustered that even after the transfer of the "right" there would be no change in its military presence in south Korea and the dispatch of its military reinforcements, offer of the nuclear umbrella under the south Korea-U.S. "mutual defense pact" and provision of information and early warning capabilities, etc. in case of "emergency" on the Korean Peninsula. And it has stated that fresh scenarios for military operations would be worked out to replace the "OPLAN 5027" and joint military exercises including the "Foal Eagle", "RSOI" and "Ulji Focus Lens" maintained.
    In actuality, the U.S. and south Korean warlike forces plan to stage in south Korea the "RSOI" and field mobile exercises, intended for U.S. military reinforcement in case of "emergency" on the Korean Peninsula, from Mar. 25 to 31.
    As long as the U.S. imperialists remain in south Korea, enforcing their colonial rule over it, there will be no meaning in the transfer of the "right to command wartime operations".