A retired U.S. soldier mentioned this fact at a meeting held at the "National Assemblymen's" Hall in Seoul on July 25. He was the first to disclose the defoliant burial.

According to his testimony, trucks of a U.S. air force unit carried drums containing defoliant and other unknown chemical substances to the Waegwan base two or three times per a week in six months by the end of 1978 after defoliant in the base was buried.

Whenever the trucks arrived, the U.S. troops in Waegwan guided them to the place where they buried defoliant for the first time. Then they unloaded the drums of defoliant and buried them with bulldozers, and the number of drums amounted to hundreds in all.

Early next year when this area was covered with snow and water, there floated in the water yellow and brown bubbles. Particularly, all vegetables, cultivated at the foot of its surrounding hills, perished and birds, hares and other animals were found dead in its vicinities.

Disclosing this fact, he complained that the investigation into this case is being delayed against one's expectation.

He told that he knew nothing about opinion that the buried drums were transferred to other place afterwards.

Other retired U.S. soldiers, who accompanied him, claimed that it was a very hard thing at that time to dig out and transfer defoliant to other place. If this was true, there wouldn't be no record, they said.