[CPEO-MEF] CLOSURE, GLOBAL: Camp Castle in Dongducheon, Gyeonggi Province, and the Defense Reutilization and Marketing Office (DRMO) in Busan, South Korea

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Contaminated US military bases need an explanation, not an alibi
Ministry that recently carried out return of bases did so without  
proper announcement or cleanup of contamination

By Kim Jung-soo
The Hankyoreh (South Korea)
March 25, 2015

Two former US military bases were officially returned to South Korea  
on Mar. 13 after an agreement by the South Korean government that did  
not require environment cleanup efforts by USFK, it was belatedly  
confirmed recently.

The two bases, Camp Castle in Dongducheon, Gyeonggi Province, and the  
Defense Reutilization and Marketing Office (DRMO) in Busan, have been  
the subject of controversy over the presence of untreated  
contaminants. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which was in charge of  
the joint committee for the South Korea-US Status of Forces Agreement  
(SOFA), had not even put out a one-page press release on the matter,  
and it was not until Mar. 24 that a spokesperson confirmed the  
completion of the return while answering questions from reporters  
during a regular briefing.

The resolution is distinctly unsatisfying, with official confirmation  
of the two bases’ return coming ten days after the fact - even with  
the press and civic groups closely monitoring the issue.

...

For the entire article, see
http://english.hani.co.kr/arti/english_edition/e_international/ 
683884.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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