SEOUL — South Korea said on Monday it would conduct an environmental survey of dozens of former US military bases amid concerns over the alleged burial of a highly toxic defoliant used in the Vietnam War.
The survey follows a report by a US TV station that leftover Agent Orange was buried in 1978 at Camp Carroll, a US army logistics base at Waegwan, 216 kilometres (135 miles) southeast of Seoul.
US and South Korean investigators have launched a survey of the US camp but no significant traces of Agent Orange have been detected so far.
A US veteran also reportedly claimed last week that US troops had buried hundreds of gallons of chemicals at Camp Mercer in Bucheon, west of Seoul, between 1963 and 1964.
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