[CPEO-MEF] South Korean base cleanup

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

S. Korean troops start cleaning up returned U.S. bases

Yonhap News Agency (S. Korea)
October 11, 2007

SEOUL -- Two military units solely charged with getting rid of 
environmental contamination have begun to clean tens of polluted U.S. 
military bases that were recently returned to South Korea, the Defense 
Ministry said Thursday.

Created in June, the 512-member units began the clean-up after 100 days 
of study and field training. They are the first South Korean military 
units tasked with protecting the environment.

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For the entire article, see
http://english.yonhapnews.co.kr/national/2007/10/11/12/0301000000AEN20071011002400315F.HTML

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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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