U.S. Congress Pushes to Strengthen Oversight of 'OPCON Transfer'... "Report Roadmap Regularly"

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(Washington = Yonhap News) Correspondent Lee Yu-mi = In next year's defense budget bill passed by the U.S. Senate Armed Forces Committee, the Secretary of Defense (Department of War) [is tasked with] the implementation of the transfer of wartime operational control...

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With the Lee Jae-myung administration aiming to reclaim Wartime Operational Control (OPCON) within its term, it appears that the U.S. Senate Armed Forces Committee has strengthened checks and balances in the 2027 Fiscal Year National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) recently released. The draft NDAA, prepared by the committee chairman, goes a step beyond last year's version, which prohibited the transfer of OPCON until the Secretary of Defense r…