For more news visit ☛ http://english.ntdtv.com Follow us on Twitter ☛ http://twitter.com/NTDTelevision Add us on Facebook ☛ http://facebook.com/NTDTelevision<br /><br />South Korea and the United States have agreed to investigate a report that the U.S. military dumped Agent Orange at a base 200 miles southeast of Seoul. The investigation is set to begin next week.<br /><br />South Korea has agreed to start a joint investigation with the United States into possible dumping of the chemical Agent Orange at Camp Carroll army base near Seoul.<br /><br />[Yunsik Hong, Deputy Minister for National Agenda, PM Office]: <br />"Tomorrow, we will start collecting ground water samples around the Camp Carroll base for the first time, and our investigation within Camp Carroll will begin next week."<br /><br />A U.S. military official says ground-penetrating radar devices will be used in next week's investigation.<br /><br />South Korean activists have called for a transparent investigation over claims made that the chemical defoliant Agent Orange was buried at a U.S. army base Camp Carroll in 1970s.<br /><br />Earlier this week the U.S. military said it discovered a study indicating the military buried chemicals and herbicides at the military base, 200 miles southeast of Seoul. But the study did not specifically identify Agent Orange.<br /><br />The controversy erupted last week, when South Korean media reported that U.S. veterans had told U.S. television station KPHO-TV that they were ordered to dump the chemicals at Camp Carroll in the late 1970s.<br /><br />After the U.S. veterans started talking about the buried toxic chemicals, a South Korean man insisted he buried the barrels containing Agent Orange into a hole in 1973 when he was working for the base as a forklift driver.<br /><br />The issue could potentially rekindle anti-U.S. sentiment in the country.
