OpCon
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OpCon (plural OpCons)
Alternative form of OPCON
OPCON
(US, military) Acronym of operational control. Command authority that may be exercised by commanders at any echelon at or below the level of combatant command.
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South Korea has had its military under U.S. OPCON since the Korean War in the early 1950s, with the South Korean military only regaining formal OPCON of its own forces in peacetime in 1994.
If successful, the planned OPCON transfer would facilitate Washington’s goal of playing a less pronounced role in Korean affairs and serve as a gesture of goodwill to potentially currently moribound negotiations with North Korea.