Ending South Korea Subsidization?
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South Korea will assume wartime control over its own military forces in April 2012, the Defense Department announced Friday.
The U.S. commander in South Korea has wartime control of both U.S. and South Korean troops in case of war, but the South Korean government has said it now wants wartime control over its own forces.
The South Korean government currently pays about 40 percent of the nonpersonnel costs associated with having U.S. troops in its country, but former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld had insisted the two countries split the costs roughly equally.
-Shlok
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