[CPEO-MEF] South Korea and U.S. unilateralism

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

S.K. failed to react quickly to U.S. base cleanup issue
Slow response paved way for U.S. unilateralism on environmental issues

The Hankyoreh (South Korea)
August 22, 2006

South Korea received notice in June from the United States that 
Washington would return 19 bases for which negotiations between the two 
countries on environmental cleanup had not yet been completed. However, 
it was found that the government did not take any measures regarding the 
unresolved cleanup issues until the ROK-U.S. Security Policy Initiative 
meeting in July.

Because of Seoul's lack of response to Washington's initial notice, the 
U.S. claimed that the Korean government had accepted its policy on the 
19 bases, which it has since completed returning. Experts predict that 
this will make it difficult for Seoul to request that Washington take 
responsibility for the environmental contamination at the remaining 
40-some military bases to be turned over by 2011.

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For the entire article, see
http://english.hani.co.kr/arti/english_edition/e_international/150956.html

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
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