S. Korea requests another delay in OPCON transfer: report

South Korea has requested another delay in the schedule to regain wartime operational control (OPCON) of its troops, a news report said.

"I know that has been proposed by the South Korean government, and we are looking at that, working with the South Korean government," a top U.S. government official was quoted as saying by Yonhap News Agency in Seoul.

Consultations on the matter are underway between the two allies, Yonhap said in a Washington-datelined dispatch.

The official, however, emphasized that the United States would not “abruptly make decisions that would impair or endanger the security of South Korea,” the report said.

The OPCON transfer is currently slated for Dec. 1, 2015.

South Korea handed over OPCON to the U.S.-led U.N. troops during the 1950-53 Korean War. It regained peacetime OPCON in 1994.

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