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According to a report by Reuters, on Monday, the US military identified the first two American troops from 55 boxes of human remains from the Korean War that were returned to the US in July. The identities are reportedly expected to be officially announced in the coming days, after the solders' relatives have been privately informed. Reuters reports that the identifications will chip away at the 7,699 U.S. troops who the U.S. military claims are still unaccounted for over half a century after the Korean War.
Reuters reports that more than 50 boxes handed over by North Korea to the United States last week appear to hold human remains from the 1950-1953 Korean War. According to an initial forensic analysis, a U.S. official said on Wednesday the remains are likely American. A U.S. military transport aircraft on Friday flew the remains from the North Korean city of Wonsan. It was a first step in implementing an agreement reached at a landmark summit between North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and U.S. President Donald Trump in June. More than 7,700 U.S. troops remain unaccounted for from the Korea War. About 5,300 were lost in what is now North Korea.
Business Insider reported that on Friday Defense Secretary James Mattis said that the return of remains believed to be of US soldiers killed in the Korean War by North Korea was a "humanitarian act." Mattis told reporters that "This humanitarian act is a step in the right direction." For years, the US has sought to locate and repatriate their remains, but political tensions between the US and North Korea have often made that extremely difficult. It is estimated that roughly 7,700 US soldiers did not return home when the Korean War ended.
Reuters reports North Korea will transfer the remains of an unspecified number of soldiers killed in the Korean War on Friday, South Korea’s Yonhap news agency reported, after accepting about 100 wooden caskets sent by the United States. The repatriation of remains of U.S. soldiers killed in the 1950-53 Korean War was one of the agreements reached during a landmark summit between U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Singapore on June 12. North Korea is expected to transfer the remains on Friday. The planned transfer would coincide with the 65th anniversary of the 1953 armistice agreement that ended fighting.
According to Reuters on Thursday, U.S. President Donald Trump, correcting a statement he had made a day earlier, said that the remains of U.S. troops missing from the Korean War were in the process of being returned to the United States from North Korea. Trump on Wednesday had said the remains of 200 American servicemen had been sent back. According to TIME, the Department of Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency says that nearly 7,700 American military service-people are still unaccounted for from the Korean War.
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