Seoul, May 12 (IANS) South Korea and the United States have agreed to work together to strengthen cooperation in areas of “mutual security interest,” including Seoul’s push to retake wartime operational control (OPCON) from Washington and joint efforts to modernise the alliance.Defence Minister Ahn Gyu-back and US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth expressed the commitments during their talks at the Pentagon on Monday (US time) as Seoul seeks to regain wartime command from the US as part of broader …
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Seoul, May 7 (IANS) South Korea and the United States will hold their high-level defence talks in Washington next week, Seoul’s defence ministry said Thursday, with the wartime Operational Control (OPCON) transfer and access control of the inter-Korean buffer zone expected to top the agenda.The biannual Korea-US Integrated Defence Dialogue (KIDD) will take place from Tuesday through Wednesday (US time), the ministry said in a release.Kim Hong-cheol, Deputy Defence Minister for policy, will lead …