SOUTH KOREA: REMAINS OF U.S. SERVICMEN KILLED IN KOREAN WAR REPATRIATED AFTER BEING HANDED OVER BY NORTH KOREA.

Record ID: 208489

  • Title: SOUTH KOREA: REMAINS OF U.S. SERVICMEN KILLED IN KOREAN WAR REPATRIATED AFTER BEING HANDED OVER BY NORTH KOREA.
  • Date: 27th May 2004
  • Summary: (W2) SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA (MAY 27, 2004) (REUTERS) 1. MV/GV: VARIOUS OF SOLDIERS SALUTING AT MEMORIAL DAY CEREMONY (6 SHOTS) 0.35 2. (SOUNDBITE) (English/Korean) LT GENERAL CHARLES CAMPBELL, UNITED STATES FORCES KOREA CHIEF OF STAFF, SAYING: "(IN ENGLISH) May God bless you all. May God bless the United States of America, May God bless the Republic of Korea and May God bless this great alliance." "(IN KOREAN) Thank you. Let's go, together." 0.53 3. MV/GV: MILITARY OFFICIALS; GENERALS PAYING HOMAGE; SOLDIERS PAYING HOMAGE NEAR CASKETS CONTAINING REMAINS (8 SHOTS) 1.56 4. GV/LV: SOLDIERS MOVING CASKETS TO FUNERAL VEHICLE (2 SHOTS) 2.16 5. (SOUNDBITE) (English) LIEUTENANT COLONEL JERRY O'HARA, CHIEF, PUBLIC AFFAIRS, JOINT POW/MIA ACCOUNTING COMMAND, SAYING: "But most important is that we will be taking missing Americans from the Korean War back to Amercian soil, so they are no longer lost in the hills in North Korea." 2.36 6. GV: FUNERAL VEHICLES LEAVING 2.44 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 11th June 2004 13:00
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  • Location: SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA
  • Country: South Korea
  • Reuters ID: LVA2504SDYEZR4LMSOCXGTBBF4HK
  • Story Text: Ceremony in South Korea as the remains of U.S.

    servicemen killed in the Korean war are repatriated after
    being handed over by North Korea.



    U.S. soldiers in South Korea gathered at a ceremony
    in Seoul on Thursday (May 27) to honour the remains of U.S.

    servicemen handed over by North Korea for repatriation.

    Nineteen sets of remains believed to be those of
    American soldiers who fought in North Korea in the winter
    of 1950, were recovered by members of the Joint POW/MIA
    Accounting Command (JPAC) during the recently concluded
    32nd Joint Recovery Operation.

    After being honoured at the repatriation ceremony, the
    remains were to be transported to Hawaii, where the JPAC's
    Central Identification Laboratory will conduct
    identification testing.

    "But the most important is that we will be taking
    missing Americans from the Korean War back to Amercian
    soil, so they are no longer lost in the hills in North
    Korea," said LTC Jerry O'Hara, chief, Public Affairs, Joint
    POW/MIA Accounting Command.

    The joint remains recovery work is the result of
    negotiations with North Korea led by the Defense
    Department's POW/Missing Personnel Office, a USFK statement
    said.

    A joint team recently recovered 12 sets of remains
    believed to be those of U.S. Army soldiers in North Korea,
    and a second team recovered seven sets of remains, the
    statement added.

    Since 1996, individual joint operations have been
    conducted in North Korea, during which more than 200 sets
    of remains believed to be those of U.S. soldiers have been
    recovered. Of the 88,000 U.S. service members missing in
    action from all conflicts, more than 8,100 are from the
    Korean War, concluded the statement.

    North and South Korean are still technically at war
    since the war ended in a truce without a peace treaty. The
    U.S. backed South Korea during the war, while China backed
    North Korea. And about 37,000 U.S. troops are stationed in
    the south.
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