[CPEO-MEF] Korean activists demand cleanup

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

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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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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