The Korean authorities now want to talk to the anti-US hate groups and farmers that are halting the Camp Humphreys expansion project:

The South Korean Ministry of National Defense wants to open lines of communication with protesters with whom they?ve battled over contested lands outside of the U.S. Army?s Camp Humphreys.

The goal, said MND spokesman An Jung-hoon, is to persuade farmers still on the land to vacate 2,328 acres the South Korean government purchased to allow for the expansion of Humphreys. Under a plan between South Korea and the United States, the camp will triple in size in coming years and become the U.S. military?s chief installation in South Korea.

How about arresting them when they do things like this:

South Korean riot police have skirmished with the protesters several times in recent months. On Friday, MND-contracted workers poured cement into two of the three canals that bring water to the fields where the farmers want to plant rice. Several protesters were injured and several arrested during the clashes on Friday, police said.

The protesters were able to break up the cement over the weekend, MND officials confirmed, and the water was flowing again.

They assault policemen and then destroy the cement walls that the government spent thousands of dollars for private contractors to build and the government just wants to talk to them? How about talking to them in jail where the violent instigators belong? The Camp Humphreys expansion is supposed to be complete by 2008; what a joke, at this rate the government will be lucky to have the land secured by 2008.