Assembly green-lights 240 South Korean troops for Haiti

Seoul - South Korea's National Assembly on Tuesday approved a government plan to send 240 soldiers to Haiti to help with reconstruction and humanitarian assistance after January's deadly earthquake. The contingent is to include engineers and sanitation experts, the Foreign Ministry in Seoul said.

The soldiers are to be dispatched this month to the Caribbean country and remain until December in Leogane, about 40 kilometers west of the capital, Port-au-Prince.

The assembly's approval came 20 days after the UN Security Council issued an appeal for its members to 3,500 additional soldiers and police to quake-hit regions of Haiti.

The magnitude-7 quake struck January 12, killing more than 200,000 people, according to the government, and laying waste to large parts of Port-au-Prince and surrounding areas.

Source: Earth Times.
Link: http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/308246,assembly-green-lights-240-south-korean-troops-for-haiti.html.