Wartime Command Transfer Deferred To 2015

The United States and South Korea have pushed back until late 2015 the scheduled transfer of wartime command of South Korean forces, Agence France-Presse reports.

The U.S. now maintains command of all U.S. and South Korean forces should war break out on the peninsula, but under a 2007 agreement Seoul was to take over in April 2012.

President Obama said the postponement was made at a meeting with South Korean President Lee Myung-Bak on the sidelines of the G8 summit in...