[CPEO-MEF] Korean bases

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Allies Squabble Over US Base Contamination


By Jung Sung-ki
Korea Times
February 3, 2006

Seoul and Washington are locked in tough negotiations over who should
deal with contamination on U.S. bases that are to be returned to South
Korean ownership, a government source said. 

The conflict has delayed the U.S. base relocation plan, a major
agreement struck between the two allies in 2004 as part of Washington?s
realignment of all its overseas forces. 

Under the relocation pact, the United States is required to hand back in
stages 34 military bases spread around the country by 2011, including 11
last year. In their stead, it will build two consolidated and modernized
bases in Pyongtaek and Osan, 70 kilometers south of Seoul, by 2008. 
...

For the entire article, see
http://times.hankooki.com/lpage/200602/kt2006020317361153460.htm

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