U.S.-South Korean team investigates claim of buried Agent Orange
Friday, July 22, 2011 - 14:00
in Paleontology & Archaeology
American veterans say they buried drums containing the defoliant Agent Orange at a base in South Korea in 1978. 'We're taking the claim very seriously,' a U.S. military official says.Using such modern tools as ground-penetrating radar and conducting analyses of water and soil core samples, a team of investigators in South Korea is searching for clues to a decades-old mystery: