SEOUL (Reuters) -South Korea’s defence ministry and its U.S. counterpart shared the view that there had been significant progress in meeting conditions for a transfer of wartime operational control, a ministry official said on Wednesday.

Currently, the U.S. would command allied troops in the event of war on the Korean peninsula, but South Korea has been seeking to gain “operational control”.

South Korean President Lee Jae Myung vowed on Tuesdayto end a “vicious cycle of unnecessary military tensions” with North Korea, with the aim of achieving peaceful coexistence and shared growth.

After a senior-level meeting in Seoul, the South Korean defence ministry said in a statement that the two sides had assessed overall military cooperation to develop the alliance into a reciprocal, future-ori

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