South Korea and the U.S. are in talks to create a new joint military operation body to take over some key functions of a soon-to-be-dissolved joint military command, a high-ranking government source said Sunday. The South Korea-U.S. Combined Forces Command (CFC) has served as a command structure for joint operation of military forces of the two allies since the 1950-53 Korean War. Both agreed to dissolve the CFC as South Korea plans to retake wartime operational control of its troops from the U.S. in 2015. Seoul handed over the control to the U.S. shortly after the start of the 1950-53 Korean War. "As the CFC will be dissolved with the transfer of the wartime operational control to South Korea, diverse measures are being discussed to preserve the joint military operation role held by the command," the source was quoted as saying by "YONHAP" news agency "One of the ways being discussed is to create a new joint operation body which will take over the military operation functions carried out by the CFC," he added.
