CFC to Move to Camp Humphreys in 2021
The long debated issue of where to officially put the Combined Forces Command has apparently been settled:
Korea-U.S. Combined Forces Command (CFC) will be relocated from the Yongsan Garrison in Seoul to Camp Humphreys in Pyeongtaek by 2021, defense officials announced Sunday.
The CFC, Korea’s Ministry of National Defense and Joint Chiefs of Staff made the announcement jointly on Sunday, adding that a timeline will be finalized in the U.S.-Korea Security Consultative Meeting coming at the end of October or early November.
The move had been forewarned by Washington and Seoul in June, but Sunday was the first time an exact time for the move was announced.
The move of the CFC will be in time for the expected transfer of wartime operational control (Opcon) over Korea’s military forces from the United States to Korea by 2022.
Joong Ang Ilbo
You can read more at the link, but the ROK was trying to keep the CFC in Seoul and force the Americans to commute every week for meetings. USFK wanted the CFC based out of Camp Humphreys which is what they ended up getting.
According to the article the hand over of operational control is still planned for 2022. 2022 just happens to be of the ROK presidential election so you know that who ever President Moon selects to run for President will take credit for the hand over.
LOL, facilities not even close to being ready. Big stumbling block are the SCIFs. All are well behind schedule. This is obviously some type of tactic to start anti-US protests when the moves don’t happen as unilaterally announced by the Korean government. Sad thing is the Korean government knows all this as MURO, part of MND is the contracting agency with all the Korean companies and the ROK Government making these announcements is a flat out lie.
What commie moon pie wants is the USFK to get mad and go home. That way he has state of the art facilities to move kim fatty the third “custodial” troops to move into once he puts commie moon pie in chains and sends him to the northernmost gulag. But he needs to wait for the finished construction…