[CPEO-MEF] HERBICIDES, GLOBAL: Camp Page (S. Korea) burial allegations

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Another allegation of Agent Orange at U.S. base

JoongAng Daily (S. Korea)
June 11, 2011

The Ministry National Defense said yesterday it will soon investigate  
another allegation that the U.S. military buried the highly toxic  
defoliant Agent Orange at one of its former bases in South Korea,  
amid growing concerns over possible environmental contamination.

Since mid-May, Korea and the U.S. have undertaken a joint probe into  
a U.S. military base in Chilgok, southeast of Seoul, where some  
retired American soldiers claimed that they helped bury drums of  
leftover Agent Orange there in 1978.

The claims of Agent Orange being buried at Camp Carroll have sparked  
a series of allegations by former U.S. soldiers and local residents  
that the U.S. military dumped other chemicals at its former or  
current military bases in South Korea.

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For the entire article, see
http://joongangdaily.joins.com/article/view.asp?aid=2937435

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
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