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(From Korea Times)
An agreement on the restructuring of current U.S. Forces Korea (USFK) bases across the country will take effect Thursday with the recent conclusion of parliamentary approval procedures on the Korea-U.S. Land Partnership Plan (LPP), the Foreign Ministry said.
The Defense Ministry and the USKF signed the LPP in March, under which the USFK will reduce the number of its bases from 41 to 23 and return to South Korea roughly 50 percent of the land it currently uses, equivalent to some 135 million square meters, by 2011.
``Under the LPP, the government will move soon to recover the land,'' a ministry ...