War Secretary Pete Hegseth emphasized his department ‘s priority of working to amend the legacies of the Vietnam War in a state visit to the Southeast Asian country this weekend.

Hegseth reassured Vietnamese leaders that the United States would continue its efforts to rectify the damages of the war, including continuing U.S. aid in identifying missing Vietnamese soldiers and cleaning up persisting, highly toxic defoliants that the U.S. military used to identify ground soldiers.

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