[CPEO-MEF] South Korea, U.S. cleanup dispute

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

S. Korea, US Fail to Agree on Cleanup

By Jung Sung-ki
Korea Times
May 29, 2006

Seoul and Washington have failed to narrow differences over the 
environmental cleanup involved in returning U.S. bases to Korea, the 
Defense Ministry said Monday.

During the eighth Security Policy Initiative (SPI) talks in Hawaii on 
May 25, the two sides failed to reach an agreement because of 
differences over remediation costs and contamination levels, ministry 
officials said.

The two sides will continue discussions on the matter in the next SPI 
meeting slated for mid-July, they said.

The U.S. base turnover process is a part of the 2004 agreement to 
relocate U.S. bases scattered across the country to the central region 
of South Korea.

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For the entire article, see
http://times.hankooki.com/lpage/200605/kt2006052917375853460.htm

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