[CPEO-MEF] South Korean bases and cleanup

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

U.S. to stop managing bases to be returned to Korea
S.K. concerned about footing environmental cleanup costs

The Hankyoreh (South Korea)
July 8, 2006

With South Korea and the U.S. holding negotiations over who should bear 
responsibility for the cleanup of environmental pollution at United 
States Forces Korea (USFK) bases to be returned to Korea, it was 
revealed the USFK plans to pull its management out of the 15 bases 
concerned.

An city official from Dongducheon, Gyeonggi Province, said, "The USFK 
informed us that it has decided to pull its management from Camp Nimble 
in mid-July and will take similar measures at bases across the nation 
that are due to be given back to Korea."

According to a high-ranking city official in Uijeongbu, also in Gyeonggi 
Province, U.S. Commander Forest Newton said on June 28 that control over 
Camp Kyle and Camp Sears will be handed over to the South Korean 
Ministry of National Defense on July 15.

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For the entire article, see
http://english.hani.co.kr/arti/english_edition/e_national/139630.html
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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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