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Next week, the Defense Ministers and the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the United States and the Republic of Korea will meet one after another to discuss defense issues between the two countries. Along with the security situation on the Korean peninsula and in Northeast Asia, it is expected to focus on the question of transition from traditional wartime control. This is reporter Lim Seong-ho. Defense Minister Seo-wook spoke by phone with US Secretary of Defense Mark Esper for the first time since he took office and was congratulated on taking office. The two ministers will meet at the 52nd meeting of the Security Council of the Republic of Korea and the United States in Washington on the 14th. Although Corona 19 is in full swing, we agree that we must meet in person to show our strong ROK-US alliance and combined defense posture and discuss security issues in depth. Minister Seo plans to minimize the delegation in consideration of the COVID-19 quarantine and visit the United States with an Air Force tanker instead of a civilian plane. Before the talks between the two ministers, the Won-cheol Yoo Joint Chiefs of Staff and the United States’ Joint Chiefs of Staff, Mark Milly, also met for the first time via an annual video conference of the ROK Military Commission. and the United States. At these meetings, the two sides are expected to assess the security situation on the Korean peninsula, including the North Korean trend, and discuss ways to cooperate with the two countries after the feverish ceremony. In particular, the issue of transition of exhibition control rights is expected to become a major agenda. Earlier, the United States and Korea officially agreed to change the opposition’s rights based on three conditions in 2015, and the Moon Jae-in administration, who entered office afterward, promised to change within the deadline. In the midst of this, as the spread of Corona 19 reduced the practice of verifying the conversion of OPCON in the second half of this year, observations emerged that the transition within the current government’s mandate has become difficult. As such, the ROK and US parties are expected to intensively discuss ways to finalize the OPCON transition verification at the beginning of this summit meeting. The two countries are also expected to continue discussions on the progress and scope of the increase in negotiations for the sharing of defense costs between the United States and Korea, which has fallen to a standstill. This is YTN Seongho Lim.
