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The foreign ministry said Thursday that Seoul and Washington agreed to work together for the return of about one-fourth of the U.S. military base in Yongsan in the capital by early next year.
Ko Yun-ju, the ministry's director-general for North American affairs, and Lieutenant General Scott L. Pleus, deputy commander of U.S. Forces Korea, came to the agreement in a teleconference earlier in the day.
Both are representatives of the joint committee of the Status of Forces Agreement, which governs the legal status of American troops on the peninsula.
Seoul is pushing to construct a national park on the nearly 500,000 square meters of land that will be given back.
At the session, the two sides also reaffirmed the need to expedite the return of other U.S. military camps no longer, according to a joint statement issued after the meeting.
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