Retired effective June 1, 1997
Lieutenant General Ronald W. Iverson is commander, 7th Air Force, Pacific Air Forces; deputy commander, U.S. Forces Korea; commander, Air Component Command; Republic of Korea and United States Combined Forces Command; commander, U.S. Air Forces Korea; and deputy commander in chief, United Nations Command, Osan Air Base, Republic of Korea. As 7th Air Force commander and commander of U.S. Air Forces in Korea, he trains, equips and receives air forces for the commander in chief, U.S. Pacific Command. As commander of the ROK-US Air Component Command, he is responsible to the commander in chief, United Nations Command
and Combined Forces Command for directing air component missions. As deputy commander in chief, United Nations Command, he assists the commander in chief in carrying out the conditions and terms of the Korean Armistice Agreement.
The general was commissioned as a distinguished graduate through the Reserve Officer Training Corps program at the University of Idaho in March 1965. He is a command pilot with more than 3,000 flying hours in various fighter and light aircraft. The general is an F-4E graduate of the Air Force Fighter Weapons School, Nellis Air Force Base, Nev.
EDUCATION:
1965 Bachelor of science degree in agricultural economics, University of Idaho 1974 Squadron Officer School 1974 Air Command and Staff College, Maxwell Air Force Base, Ala. 1977 Industrial College of the Armed Forces 1985 National War College, Fort Lesley J. McNair, Washington, D.C. 1994 National Security Program, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.
I took the liberty of highlighting the relevant clause that seemed to escape your notice.
The ROK-US Air Component Command is responsible for the air defense of South Korea (ROK stands for the Republic of Korea), and conducting military operations in the event of another conflict on the Korean Peninsula. 7th AF has administrative and operational control of ROK-US ACC elements that are USAF units. CinC United Nations Command is responsible for the overall defense of South Korea and is headed by a US Army four-star (who also serves as Commander, Eighth United States Army). In short, the commander, 7th Air Force, is responsible to the overall military commander in South Korea for the training and readiness of all aerospace elements assigned to US Forces, Korea--which, because the defense of South Korea was undertaken pursuant to a UN Security Council Resolution, also happens to be UN Forces, Korea. Incidentally, the United Nations Command has NO responsibilities outside the Korean peninsula.
Since you don't seem to understand how the UN plays into the military situation in Korea, or how far the responsibilites of those commanders extend, how joint, specified, and unified commands are organized, and under what terms the various forces serve, your example is less than convincing.