Veterans buried Agent Orange barrels at a Seoul base in the 1970s.
Evidence
In 2011, underground water at Camp Kim in Seoul had almost a thousand times the allowable level of petroleum hydrocarbon, which includes gasoline and other oil by-products. What’s more, three veterans say they followed orders in the late 1970s to bury hundreds of leaky barrels of Agent Orange at the base. Agent Orange is now known to contain a dioxin that is carcinogenic in humans. Scientists have linked the compound to diseases in troops and locals alike, including chronic lymphocytic leukemia, Hodgkin’s and non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, multiple myeloma, prostate cancer, several respiratory cancers, and some soft tissue sarcomas. — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 408
Categorization
Category: Factual Claims
- XREF: Connects to broader Agent Orange contamination history in Southeast Asia and veteran testimony.
Related
- U.S. troops buried hundreds of leaky Agent Orange barrels at a Seoul base (similarity 0.96)
- Okinawa bases buried toxic barrels near schools and veterans testify to Agent Orange there (similarity 0.90)
- Underground water at Camp Kim exceeded petroleum limits by nearly a thousand times (similarity 0.88)
- Fourteen of thirty-four returned U.S. bases in South Korea exceed local cancer-chemical standards (similarity 0.83)
- A soldier dumped formaldehyde into Seoul’s main river. (similarity 0.82)
- Base construction destroyed Diego Garcia’s reef and forest and leaked radioactivity and Agent Orange. (similarity 0.80)
- Nearly half of returned U.S. bases in Korea exceed cancer-chemical standards. (similarity 0.78)