Camp Greaves site at center of controversy

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Camp Greaves site at center of controversy
By Jimmy Norris and Hwang Hae-rym, Stars and Stripes
Pacific edition, Saturday, December 27, 2008

SEOUL — The city of Paju is demanding South Korea’s Ministry of National Defense return land formerly used by the U.S. military to the community.

About 5,000 protesters gathered at Paju Stadium late last week to urge the ministry to follow through.

City spokesman Chae Ho-jin said the ministry had promised to sell what was once the U.S. Army’s Camp Greaves to the city for about $574,000 when U.S. Forces Korea closed it in 2004.

City officials had a number of plans for the area, including an ecology park and an international cultural exchange complex.

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Chae said ministry officials told the city that the land, just south of the Demilitarized Zone, is critical to strategic defense plans and they plan to keep it.


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