Editing Agent Orange (section)

===South Korea===
Agent Orange was used in South Korea in the late 1960s<ref>{{cite web |publisher=United States Department of Veterans Affairs |title=Agent Orange: Information for Veterans Who Served in Vietnam |url=http://www.publichealth.va.gov/docs/agentorange/reviews/ao_newsletter_jul06.pdf |access-date=August 18, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090723222329/http://www.publichealth.va.gov/docs/agentorange/reviews/ao_newsletter_jul06.pdf |archive-date=July 23, 2009 |url-status=live}}</ref> and in 1999, about 20,000 South Koreans filed two separated lawsuits against U.S. companies, seeking more than $5 billion in damages. After losing a decision in 2002, they filed an appeal.<ref name="AlfanoCBS2006">{{cite web |last1=Alfano |first1=Sean |title=Agent Orange Makers Lose S. Korea Suit |url=http://www.cbsnews.com/news/agent-orange-makers-lose-s-korea-suit/ |website=CBS News |access-date=11 August 2016 |date=26 January 2006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160821073352/http://www.cbsnews.com/news/agent-orange-makers-lose-s-korea-suit/ |archive-date=21 August 2016 |url-status=live}}</ref> In January 2006, the South Korean Appeals Court ordered Dow Chemical and Monsanto to pay $62 million in compensation to about 6,800 people. The ruling acknowledged that "the defendants failed to ensure safety as the defoliants manufactured by the defendants had higher levels of dioxins than standard", and, quoting the U.S. National Academy of Science report, declared that there was a "causal relationship" between Agent Orange and a range of diseases, including several cancers. The judges failed to acknowledge "the relationship between the chemical and peripheral neuropathy, the disease most widespread among Agent Orange victims".<ref>{{cite news |url=http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/world/2006-01-26-agent-orange-damages_x.htm |title=Korea orders Agent Orange payments |website=USA Today |date=2006-01-26 |access-date=2017-03-10 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170226131319/http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/world/2006-01-26-agent-orange-damages_x.htm |archive-date=2017-02-26 |url-status=live}}</ref>

In 2011, the United States local press KPHO-TV in Phoenix, Arizona, alleged that in 1978 that the United States Army had buried 250 55-gallon drums ({{convert|13,750|U.S.gal|abbr=on}}) of Agent Orange in [[Camp Carroll, South Korea|Camp Carroll]], the U.S. Army base located in [[Gyeongsangbuk-do]], South Korea.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.kpho.com/news/27892124/detail.html |title=Military Secrets Exposed |work=KPHO-TV |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110514170728/http://www.kpho.com/news/27892124/detail.html |archive-date=May 14, 2011 |date=May 13, 2011}}</ref>

Currently, veterans who provide evidence meeting VA requirements for service in Vietnam and who can medically establish that anytime after this 'presumptive exposure' they developed any medical problems on the list of presumptive diseases, may receive compensation from the VA. Certain veterans who served in South Korea and are able to prove they were assigned to certain specified around the [[Korean Demilitarized Zone]], during a specific time frame are afforded similar presumption.<ref>[[Title 38 of the Code of Federal Regulations|38 CFR]] [https://www.ecfr.gov/cgi-bin/text-idx?SID=017bd13585179c730649591e5a2c5a9b&mc=true&node=se38.1.3_1307&rgn=div8 § 3.307(a)(6)(iv)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210519002814/https://www.ecfr.gov/cgi-bin/text-idx?SID=2860bbfc07cb48ce7b1a57605477646e&mc=true&node=se38.1.3_1307&rgn=div8 |date=May 19, 2021}}</ref>