Chemicals buried near Seoul in ’60s, says veteran

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http://joongangdaily.joins.com/article/view.asp?aid=2936678

As Washington and Seoul start investigating a report that large amounts of Agent Orange were buried at Camp Carroll in 1978, a similarly alarming claim by a former U.S. soldier in Korea about another dumping has surfaced.

Veteran Ray Bows said in a post on the “Korean War Project” Web site that U.S. Forces Korea buried “hundreds of gallons” of “every imaginable chemical” at Camp Mercer in Bucheon, Gyeonggi, between 1963 and 1964. Bows said he served at the camp from July 1963 to April 1964, working with the U.S. Army Chemical Depot Korea (USACDK).

Bow posted the claims more than 10 years ago, but they got noticed in Korea yesterday.

He said the USACDK was considered to be too close to the Demilitarized Zone and was moved in 1964 to Camp Carroll near Daegu, where three U.S. veterans now say they buried Agent Orange defoliant in the 1970s.