S Korea to search into possible environmental harm at former U.S. military bases

South Korea's defense ministry formed Monday a job force for an environmental probe into previous U.S. military bases within the nation, as new allegations of environmental damage created by U.S. forces emerge, regional media noted.

The task force, comprising officials from your defense ministry, the Army, Navy and Air Force, will appear into 85 previous U.S. military installations handed back again to South Korea between 1990 and 2003, in accordance with Yonhap News Company.

The move arrives as South Korea as well as the United states are conducting a joint investigation into an allegation that the U.S. forces secretly dumped more than 30 a long time back the toxic defoliant Agent Orange at 1 of their bases in Chilgok, some 300 kilometers southeast of Seoul.

The allegation rattled the country with more than 33,000 Vietnam War veterans who has suffered many after-effects from coverage to dioxin and led to other new statements of related fees, prodding the federal government into action.

Some 28,500 American troops are at the moment stationed here, a legacy of the 1950-53 Korean War.

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