The United States and South Korea agreed on Saturday to postpone until 2015 Washington's transfer of wartime command of allied South Korean forces to Seoul, US President Barack Obama said.
Currently, if war was to break out on the Korean peninsula the United States would assume operational command of South Korean forces. Under a 2007 agreement with Seoul, this plan was due to come to an end in April 2012.
"One of the topics that we discussed is that we have arrived at an agreement that the transition of operational control for alliance activities in the Korean Peninsula will take place in 2015," Obama said.
"This gives us appropriate time — within the existing security context — to do this right," Obama said. "We want to make sure that we execute what's called the OPCON transition in an effective way."
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