S. KOREA/VIETNAM: VETERANS FROM VIETNAM WAR WHO FOUGHT ALONGSIDE AMERICANS, SEEK COMPENSATION FROM U.S. GOVERNMENT FOR EXPOSURE TO 'AGENT ORANGE'

Record ID: 980552

  • Title: S. KOREA/VIETNAM: VETERANS FROM VIETNAM WAR WHO FOUGHT ALONGSIDE AMERICANS, SEEK COMPENSATION FROM U.S. GOVERNMENT FOR EXPOSURE TO 'AGENT ORANGE'
  • Date: 23rd November 1999
  • Summary: SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA (RECENT - NOVEMBER 22, 1999)(REUTERS) 1. MV: VETERANS FROM VIETNAM WAR (WHO ARE SUFFERING FROM AGENT ORANGE-RELATED ILLNESSES) WAVING FISTS AND CHANTING SLOGAN 0.06 2. SV: LEADERS WAVING FISTS AND CHANTING SLOGAN 0.13 3. MV: MORE OF RALLY 0.21 4. CU: VETERAN SITTING IN CROWD 0.28 5. WIDE OF PRESIDENT OF THE OFFICE TALKING TO VETERANS 0.34 6. SV: (SOUNDBITE) (Korean) YANG SANG-KYU, PRESIDENT OF OFFICE OF VIETNAM WAR VETERANS DAMAGED FROM AGENT ORANGE, SAYING "About fifty thousand people are suffering from the damage from Agent Orange and Patriots and Veterans Adminstration Agency is taking care of about twenty three thousand veterans." 0.53 7. CU: YANG SHOWING HIS ABDOMEN 0.58 8. ZOOM IN/CU: VETERAN LEE HYONG-KYU SHOWING NECK 1.07 9. SV: VETERAN UM MOON-SOP SHOWING HIS LEGS 1.13 10. SCU: (SOUNDBITE) (Korean) VETERAN UM MOON-SOP SAYING "It's the only hope, it's the matter of life or death, to have our government restore our honour and compensate (for the damage from Agent Orange). We'll fight until we die." 1.24 UNKNOWN LOCATIONS IN VIETNAM (FILE) (MUTE) (KBS - NO ACCESS SOUTH KOREA) 11. SV: UNITED STATES (U.S.) SOLDIERS (3 SHOTS) 1.31 12. LAS/AERIALS: VARIOUS OF U.S. PLANES SPRAYING AGENT ORANGE (5 SHOTS) 1.53 SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA (NOVEMBER 24, 1999) (REUTERS) 13. GV: EXTERIOR OF KOREA VETERANS HOSPITAL 1.59 14. VARIOUS OF PATIENTS DAMAGED FROM AGENT ORANGE DURING VIETNAM WAR (3 SHOTS) 2.15 SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA (NOVEMBER 23, 1999)(REUTERS) 15. MV: MEMBER OF NATIONAL DEFENCE COMMITTEE AT NATIONAL ASSEMBLY 2.22 16. SV: (SOUNDBITE) (Korean) GENERAL KIM TAE-YOUNG SAYING "It seems that defoliant was sprayed at all frontlines after the agreement between South Korea and the U.S., the defoliant was provided by the U.S.. And Agent Orange, which contained fatal dioxin, was part of the defoliant." 2.42 17. MV: NATIONAL ASSEMBLY MEMBERS AND MEDIA 2.48 18. SCU: NATIONAL ASSEMBLY MEMBER SHOWING PHOTOGRAPHS OF CHILD DAMAGED FROM AGENT ORANGE NEAR DEMILITARISED ZONE 2.52 19. CU: PHOTOGRAPH SHOWING DAMAGED CHILD AND HIS MOTHER 2.59 20. WIDE OF NATIONAL DEFENCE COMMITTEE 3.04 SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA (RECENT - NOVEMBER 22, 1999)(REUTERS) 21. GV: VETERANS CELEBRATING 35TH ANNIVERSARY OF PARTICIPATING IN VIETNAM WAR AT WAR MUSEUM IN SEOUL 3.09 22. SLV: BALLOONS FLOATING UPWARDS IN THE AIR 3.17 23. MV: VETERANS, DAMAGED FROM AGENT ORANGE, SALUTING 3.22 24. SLV: BANNER READING (IN Korean): "GOVERNMENT SHOULD BE IMMEDIATELY INVOLVED IN FILING SUITS AGAINST U.S. AGENT ORANGE" 3.30 25. MV: VETERANS DAMAGED FROM AGENT ORANGE SITTING TOGETHER AT CORNER OF CEREMONY SITE 3.36 26. CU: DAMAGED HANDS 3.41 27. SV: SILENT PRAYER BY VETERANS DAMAGED FROM AGENT ORANGE 3.48 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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  • Location: SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA AND UNKNOWN LOCATION, VIETNAM
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  • Country: South Korea Vietnam
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