Special Deal Will Allow Korean Employees to Return to Work on U.S. Bases
A temporary deal has been reached to get Korean employees back to work on U.S. bases:
The United States and South Korea agreed to a $200 million stopgap measure allowing more than 4,000 local base employees to return to work after months of unpaid leave, despite the allies’ failure to reach a broader defense cost-sharing deal.
The Pentagon said Wednesday that it has accepted Seoul’s proposal to fund the labor costs for all South Korean employees of U.S. Forces Korea through the end of this year amid stalled talks on reaching a new contract known as the Special Measures Agreement.
“This decision effectively ends the partial furlough,” USFK commander Gen. Robert Abrams said in a separate statement. “We expect our entire workforce to return back to USFK within the next few weeks.”
Stars & Stripes
You can read more at the link, but it appears there is still no long term cost sharing deal that is going to happen any time soon.
Obviously commie moon pie, kim fatty the third & emperor xi weren’t getting the quality intelligence from the remaining workers…USFK was actually doing stuff they didn’t know about in advance.