[CPEO-MEF] GLOBAL: "Seoul City [South Korea]moves to probe U.S. bases over alleged contamination"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Seoul City moves to probe U.S. bases over alleged contamination

By Kim Yon-se
Korea Herald
November 9, 2014 

Seoul City said Sunday that it would hold working-level talks with the United States Forces Korea later this month to discuss the alleged contamination in Koreans’ residential districts around Yongsan Garrison (south post) and Camp Kim (main post).

While the two parties have already held several rounds of preliminary talks to take countermeasures against the residential area around the U.S. military bases in central Seoul since the first half of 2013, the coming meeting would mark the first in which the city will demand an on-the-spot inspection into the bases, according to the city.

“The project (which was mapped out by Seoul City) was delivered the USFK via the Ministry of Environment (of Korea) in August,” a Seoul City official said.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20141109000301

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