[CPEO-MEF] GLOBAL, HERBICIDES: Koreans find Agent Orange traces at Camp Carroll

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Traces of defoliant found at U.S. military camp in S. Korea

Yonhap News (S. Korea)
September 9, 2011

CHILGOK, South Korea -- A modest amount of a defoliant component has  
been detected in and around a U.S. military camp in South Korea where  
several retired American soldiers said they dumped drums of the toxic  
chemical decades ago, a joint investigation team said Friday.

The team of local and U.S. specialists has measured levels of  
potential toxic chemical contamination in soil and groundwater in and  
around Camp Carroll in Chilgok, some 300 kilometers southeast of  
Seoul, after three United States Forces Korea (USFK) veterans  
revealed in May that they helped bury hundreds of drums containing  
chemicals presumed to be the cancer-causing defoliant Agent Orange in  
1978.

This marks the team's first extraction of a defoliant component from  
Camp Carroll's groundwater, which shows that allegations of the  
defoliant burial may be true.

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For the entire article, see
http://english.yonhapnews.co.kr/national/ 
2011/09/09/58/0301000000AEN20110909006600315F.HTML

See also http://www.koreaherald.com/national/Detail.jsp? 
newsMLId=20110909000784

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
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