Korean Police Refuse to Guard Camp Humphreys Expansion Site

It looks like the local police in Pyeongtaek are about as eager to enforce laws against illegal protesting as they are in enforcing Korean traffic laws:

Gyeonggi Provisional Police Agency Commissioner Oe Cheong-su on Thursday said police would reject a Defense Ministry request to provide security during the fencing in of the site for a new U.S. Forces Korea headquarters in Pyeongtaek. After plans for a ditch to keep residents and activists from farming the fields failed on April 7, the ministry said it would study setting up wire fences instead. “Under the Status of Forces Agreement, the police undertake security duty at protected military facilities like American bases. But there are no legal grounds for the police to do so in areas military facilities have yet to move to since they are property of the Defense Ministry,” Oe reasoned. “If the ministry is afraid of damage to the fences, it had better hire security contractors.?

I actually can’t blame the police for taking this stand considering the Korean government allows the anti-US hate groups and protesters to do this to them:

Scene of July 10, 2005 Riot Outside of Camp Humphreys

Maybe if the government would allow the police to arrest, imprison, and fine these people for assaulting policemen than maybe they would be more eager to do their jobs.