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Wartime Command Transfer Deferred To 2015

June 28 2010

South Korea

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...

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