The U.S. on Tuesday will return the remains of 147 South Korean soldiers who went missing during the Korean War. The repatriation ceremony marks the largest such effort to date
The U.S. on Tuesday will return the largest number of South Korean soldiers missing from the Korean War so far after years of forensic investigation of the unidentified remains that were handed over to the Pentagon by North Korea.
So far, 62 Americans have also been identified from the sets of remains from North Korea. "We're confident that it will be more," Byrd said.Overall, the Pentagon agency is tracking more than 82,000 U.S. military personnel from World War II, Korea, the Vietnam War, the Cold War and other modern conflicts.
"A lot of them were captured and marched all the way up to North Korea," said Jennie Jin, a forensic anthropologist who leads the Pentagon's Korean War identification project. "So to me that's the real challenge because the record is not very good. So we have very limited sources."
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