Korea’s Independent Defense Policy

I have to wonder about this thinking.  The Korean government wants operation war time control of the military in the name of “independent defense” despite calls from all of Korea’s past defense ministers claiming that the ROK military is not ready for complete war time control due to a number of capabilities the ROK military does not possess, but the US does.

However, what I find interesting is that the cornerstone of the “independent defense” policy of the current Korean government is that if war did break out the Yankee cavalry will come in and save our asses anyway.  So how is this really “independent defense”?