South Korea Adds Liaison Officer to Assist International Coalition Defending the Strait of Hormuz
|This is a great way for the Moon administration to make it appear they are contributing to the international coalition defending the Strait of Hormuz when in reality they just added a liaison officer:
South Korea’s decision to send troops to the tense Strait of Hormuz for “independent” naval operations drove home its desire to cement alliance cooperation with the United States and avoid straining ties with its trade partner, Iran, analysts said Tuesday.
Capping monthslong deliberations that pitted security cooperation with Washington against economic relations with Tehran, Seoul announced it would temporarily expand areas of operations for its anti-piracy Cheonghae unit to cover the passageway off Iran.
The naval unit, now stationed in the Gulf of Aden, will operate independently of the International Maritime Security Construct (IMSC), a U.S.-led military coalition to safeguard freedom of navigation in the waterway, though it would cooperate with the coalition if need be. Two South Korean liaison officers will be dispatched to the IMSC.
Yonhap
You can read more at the link, but basically the ROK ship on anti-piracy duty in the Gulf of Aden can be asked by the US coalition for help through a ROK liaison officer that is deployed to assist them.
So the US Navy is getting 2 KATUSA officers?
Why are we defending ships bringing fuel to a country that chooses not to help?
Asking for a friend.
“Why are we defending ships bringing fuel to a country that chooses not to help?”
America doesn’t want the oil. America wants to control the oil.
The power is not in defending the shipse. The power is in threatening to stop defending the ships.
CH, I understand that’s one view…
However, I think it may be part of the $5Billion Trump says they owe.
I don’t think Trump is the same kind of global loser as we’ve had in the past…
South Korea has Iran amd wants North Korea as “Tradong partners.”
Hmmm…