section 3 Maintaining a Readiness Posture against Aggression to prepare for a full scale war initiated by North Korea, the rOK military is enhancing its operational plans and is conducting joint and combined exercises and training. Plans are underway to revamp the wartime mobilization system for troops and munitions to achieve greater efficiency, and to create the army Mobilization Force Command to compensate for the shortage of active-duty troops, resulting from and logistics systems are drastically overhauled, and all available resources of the civilian, government and military sectors, located both inside and outside the country, are to be utilized to strengthen the war sustainment capability. 1. enhancing Wartime Operational Capabilities North Korea is expanding its asymmetric warfighting capabilities, including nuclear and missile capabilities, while continuing to maintain a large conventional force. Its key forces are positioned mostly south of the Pyongyang-Wonsan line for a posture capable of launching surprise attacks and engaging in lightning warfare without needing to redeploy its forces. In preparation for the threats of a full scale war from North Korea, the ROK military is continuously developing ROK-U.S. joint operational plans to new levels of effectiveness and increasing its wartime operational capabilities through scientific and systematic training. During a contingency, the ROK-U.S. combined and joint forces, based on the robust military alliance between the two countries, will be operated in an offensive manner to carry out simultaneous, integrated operations on land, at sea and in the air, as well as in cyber-space, to seize the initiative at the earliest stages of war. By annihilating North Korea’s warfighting capabilities and destroying its will to fight, the combined and joint forces will achieve a decisive victory in a short period of time. 2. Providing High-level Training to Reserve forces (Building an elite Reserve force) | establishing a firm Mobilization Posture | To secure a sufficient deterrence capacity to Section 3 Maintaining a readiness Posture against aggression 59 Chapter 3 the reduction of service personnel, through highly-trained reserve forces. the procurement, maintenance