The US has agreed to carry out a joint investigation over whether it buried toxic chemicals, like Agent Orange, containing the highly toxic dioxin compound, in South Korea. <br /><br />It is believed that the chemicals were illegally buried at an American army base in the 1970s. The US military confirmed that its <br />own records showed that it had dug up buried chemicals in Camp Carroll in 1979 and 1980, and that one of 13 soil samples taken in <br />2004 showed traces of dioxin.<br /><br />Agent Orange has been blamed for causing cancer and serious birth defects in South Korea. <br /><br />Al Jazeera's Harry Fawcett reports.
