Re: The Yellow Sea Battle - II

[Mike Davino <mdavino@yahoo.com>]

YSK,

The US gave up peacetime operational control of the
ROK military on December 1, 1994.  

The US 4-star general in Korea in peacetime now has
something called "combined delegated authority" over
planning functions and other items like combined
training of ROK & US forces.  

See this document at this URL for more details.


http://www.ieas.or.kr/vol13_1/13_1_6.pdf

Mike Davino

--- ysk <ysk@kimsoft.com> wrote:
> Keith,
> 
> Well, the bad guys are expected to lie - but the
> good guys are not supposed to lie, right?  If the
> good guys act as bad as, if not worse than, the bad
> guys, then why call them 'good'?
> 
> Is Korea in 'peace time' now?
> 
> When a hostile incident happens, who has the command
> control of ROK military?
> 
> Is ramming a hostile act?   If an American warship
> is rammed on purpose by a foreign warship, would it
> fight back?   Curiously, most reports on the
> incident leave out the ramming part.
> 
> BTW, as far as I know, the only ROK military units
> not controlled by the US are the special espionage
> forces (chup-bo-dae - formerly HID) - whose members
> are 'civilians' and hence not subject to the US
> command control  
> 
> 
> ysk
> 
> 
>   ----- Original Message ----- 
>   From: KEACLA1@aol.com 
>   To: KOREAN-WAR-L@raven.cc.ku.edu 
>   Sent: Sunday, June 30, 2002 10:04 AM
>   Subject: Re: The Yellow Sea Battle - II
> 
> 
> 
>   YSK wrote: 
> 
>   <<What the world knows about this incident is what
> Seoul claims - not well known for truth in
> reporting....>> 
> 
>   This, of course, is in dramatic contrast to the
> legendary veracity of Pyongyang. 
> 
>   <<BTW - doesn't the US have the command control of
> Kim Dae Jung's military?  If so, was the US military
> involved in this incident in any way or shape? >> 
> 
>   You know very well that the ROK Navy is not under
> any form of U.S. command in peacetime. 
>     
>        Regards, 
>        Keith Allen 
> 
> 


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