2007 CPEO Military List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: 31 May 2007 16:07:23 -0000
Reply: cpeo-military
Subject: [CPEO-MEF] Korean activists demand cleanup
 
Closed bases draw Korean activists' ire


By Hwang Hae-rym and T.D. Flack
Stars and Stripes Pacific edition
June 1, 2007

SEOUL - A group of South Korean activists gathered in Seoul on Wednesday to blast their country's decision to accept nine more closed U.S. military facilities.

Sixteen members of the environmentalist group Green Korea United and four people who live near the former Koon-ni Range gathered for about an hour outside South Korea's Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade building in Seoul to demand a full-scale environmental cleanup of the returned bases. They condemned South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun's administration for accepting the facilities and presented a letter of complaint to the ministry.

A Ministry of National Defense official said Wednesday that the decision to accept the facilities was made during Security Policy Initiative talks between U.S. and South Korean officials last month.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.estripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=46309

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