[CPEO-MEF] GLOBAL, CLOSURE: "U.S. refusing to cover decontamination costs for five military bases slated for return" to Korea

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

US refusing to cover decontamination costs for five military bases  
slated for return

By Lee You Ju-hyun
Hankyoreh (So. Korea)
November 3, 2014

With bases slated for return to South Korean control, many have  
harmful levels of chemical contamination The return of five US  
military bases to South Korea is being held up over Washington‘s  
refusal to pay decontamination costs for the sites after a government  
inspection found all five to have “harmful” levels of soil and  
underground water contamination, a lawmaker is claiming.

Woo Won-shik, a lawmaker with the New Politics Alliance for  
Democracy, announced on Nov. 2 that Korea Environment Corporation  
harmfulness assessments gave “harmful” ratings to all five of the US  
military bases that are currently being discussed for a return to  
South Korean control.

Woo cited Ministry of Environment briefing data for the sites, which  
include the Defense Reutilization and Marketing Office (DRMO) in  
Busan; Camp Casey and Camp Hovey in Dongducheon, Gyeonggi Province;  
and Camp Eagle and Camp Long in Wonju, Gangwon Province.

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For the entire article, see
http://english.hani.co.kr/arti/english_edition/e_international/ 
662671.html

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