Civilian’s Death Prompts Safety Review by U.S.
U.S. soldiers in South Korea have stopped all nonemergency services and training to review safety measures after a 51-year-old Korean woman was killed by a U.S. military truck near the capital, Seoul.
The move was ordered by Army Gen. Leon J. LaPorte, commander of U.S. forces in South Korea, who visited the victim’s family to express his condolences.
Relations between the United States and South Korea were strained when two teenage girls were killed by an American military vehicle in 2002.
Two soldiers were put on trial and acquitted, prompting protests.
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