In South Korea, two US manufacturers of Agent Orange have been ordered to pay compensation to thousands of South Korean veterans who fought with the US in the Vietnam War.
Dow Chemical and Monsanto, which supplied the US during the war, were ordered to pay up to $61 million in damages. The case marked the first ruling in favor of Agent Orange Victims in South Korea.
Last year, a US federal judge dismissed a similar class action lawsuit against the two companies brought by a group of Vietnamese citizens.
The U.S. military sprayed over 3,000 Vietnamese villages with Agent Orange during the war, affecting between two and five million people.

-Democracy Now! 27.Jan.06