U.S. and South Korea Agree to Update OPLAN’s
The U.S. and ROK militaries will work to update OPLAN’s that reflect the changes in capabilities the North Koreans have demonstrated with their nuclear and missile programs:
The top military officials of South Korea and the United States have signed a document directing the update of joint wartime contingency plans, Seoul officials said Thursday, following North Korea’s intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) launch last week.
Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) Chairman Gen. Won In-choul and his U.S. counterpart, Gen. Mark Milley, inked the Strategic Planning Directive (SPD) during their talks in Hawaii on Wednesday (local time), according to South Korea’s JCS.
The SPD signing is bound to accelerate a previously agreed-upon process to rewrite the allies’ wartime operation plans (OPLANs).
Yonhap
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Don’t trust Milley.
Any chance they can nickname this new OPLAN Operation Yellow Wind? I understand the North Korean propaganda machine once condemned the “Yellow Winds of Captitalism” as part of an anti-socialist campaign. Or they could borrow some of General Matthew Ridgway’s operational names during the Korean War, such as Operation Ripper or Operation Killer.