Lee Jae Myung reiterates desire for full command back in Seoul’s hands after Donald Trump cuts joint exercises, citing warm ties with Kim Jong-un
South Korea’s president has renewed his push to regain independent control of the military from the US in the event of war and urged faster progress in acquiring nuclear-powered submarines after Donald Trump’s order to cut joint drills.
On Sunday night, Trump instructed the Pentagon to “substantially reduce” this week’s joint military exercises with South Korea, saying the nuclear-armed North “has been unthreatening and respectful” and that the US president had a “very good relationship with Kim Jong-un”.
Lee Jae Myung said on Tuesday that Seoul should proceed without disruption with the planned transfer, during his term, of wartime operational control, or Opcon, of South Korean forces from the US – a goal he and the government have long held.
You’re not wrong, but what happens when a country ‘elects’ a guy who thinks lobbing some plutonium at a hurricane will make it back down and go away and there need to be multiple people involved before anything is launched? MAD does work, but anything dealing with nuke stuff comes to “do this step by precise step or everyone dies” is something us humans should take a little more interest in directing as a planet not nations.