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Published:Dec 7, 202310:27
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Speaking to reporters aboard Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin's flight to South Korea, senior protection officers stated that Austin and Defense Minister Suh Wook will announce new strategic planning steerage to start creating a brand new operational conflict plan.The two met Wednesday and are scheduled to fulfill once more on Thursday as a part of the 53rd US-Republic of Korea Security Consultative Meeting."This is the right thing to do," stated one official. "The strategic environment has changed over the past few years and it's appropriate and necessary that we have an [operational war plan] that is updated and keeps it in tune with the strategic environment. So the strategic planning guidance that the minister and secretary will announce is going to be an important step forward in that."There have been 4 separate North Korean missile launch checks since early September, the officers famous, together with cruise missiles, quick vary ballistic missiles, what Pyongyang claimed was a hypersonic weapon and, most not too long ago, a check of a submarine-launched ballistic missile.
A second official known as the event of a brand new operational conflict plan "a natural evolution of changing circumstances" and not a right away response to at least one singular regarding occasion.The categorized operational conflict plan particulars how the US, South Korea, and their allies would reply within the occasion of a battle with North Korea. Because the South Korean capital of Seoul is barely about 30 miles from the demilitarized zone appearing as a buffer zone between the 2 international locations, the US-led alliance has ready plans in case a conflict breaks out between North and South Korea.Seoul is inside attain of North Korean artillery and different standard weapons, however the advances in recent times of Pyongyang's superior weaponry have made an up to date conflict plan much more crucial, officers stated.Noting that the present plan is sort of 10 years previous, the primary official stated that the US has seen progress in North Korean navy capabilities, particularly on the subject of missiles, "and I think that's one set of issues that we plan to address."There is not any particular timetable to finish the brand new plan, the officers stated, including that it'll take each time and effort to develop.
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The announcement of the intent to develop the plan got here after the Pentagon unveiled some particulars about its not too long ago concluded world power posture overview, which known as for a better deal with the Indo-Pacific area. The navy consulted with South Korea in finishing it, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Strategy and Force Development, Mara Karlin, stated at a press briefing Monday.
"The Global Posture Review directs additional cooperation with allies and partners across the region to advance initiatives that contribute to regional stability and deter potential military aggression from China and threats from North Korea," Karlin stated.On Tuesday, the highest US common met his South Korean counterpart in Seoul, additional underscoring the coordination and cooperation between the 2 international locations. Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Mark Milley emphasised to Gen. In-Choul Won the significance of the alliance and the deterrence it supplies, in response to a readout of the assembly, which occurred as a part of the forty sixth Republic of Korea and United States Military Committee Meeting.On Monday, Pentagon press secretary John Kirby known as the alliance between the US and South Korea the "linchpin of peace and stability" on the Korean peninsula



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