Posted on 03/21/2010 11:09:41 PM PDT by ErnstStavroBlofeld
The top American military officer here has proposed that South Korea buy a key U.S. underground command bunker on the outskirts of Seoul, as his troops will move to an area south of the Han River, relinquishing wartime operational control to Korean commanders, a source at the Combined Forces Command (CFC) said Sunday.
CFC Commander Gen. Walter Sharp, who concurrently heads the 28,000-strong U.S. Forces Korea (USFK), made the proposal to South Korea during the Key Resolve command-post exercise that ended Thursday, the source told The Korea Times.
The Ministry of National Defense is reviewing the offer but has yet to make a final decision, a ministry official said.
The bunker, known as CP Tango (Command Post Theater, Air, Naval, Ground Operations), is the main command and control center from which U.S. military leaders would direct any combat against North Korea.
Sharp's proposal reflects the firm U.S. intent to shift its roles and missions to air- and naval-centric support after the South Korean military takes over operational control of its troops during wartime in 2012 as scheduled, despite calls to delay the transition, the CFC source said.
Conservatives in South Korea and some U.S. experts have argued the command transfer should be delayed not to weaken the U.S. security commitment on the Korean Peninsula amid the lingering threat posed by North Korea's missile and nuclear programs.
Following the transition of the wartime command authority, the USFK wants South Korean troops to assume most theater operations against North Korea, while it would be more focused on regional threats in the long term, he said.
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Looks to me like the annointed one will now commence operations to pull out of Korea.
Get ready for the great contraction. It would be interesting to watch if there were any Americans overseas who reported on such things.
If that’s the bunker at Camp Red Cloud in Uijongbu, it’s my old workplace when it was I Corps (ROK/US) Group. It’s where we kept track of the DMZ and what the North Koreans were up to.
I really do not think he will pull out. You will a lot of Republicans screaming in Congress.
Red Cloud is north of Seoul. This is on the southern end.
It's not. TANGO is right outside Seoul. I used to work there from time to time.
The San Francisco Peninsula can be sold.
Many Californians would like to see that gone.
Is CRC now 2nd Division HQ? It was Camp Casey when I did my two tours in Korea. I heard they’re heading even further south, down near the Air Force base.
It looks by the map its south of Seoul.
No clue. I was at TANGO a few times back in the mid 90s.
Yong Son.
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