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WASHINGTON When North Korea handed over 55 boxes of bones that it said are remains of American war dead, it provided a single military dog tag but no other information that could help U.S. forensics experts determine their individual identities, a U.S. defense official said Tuesday.
The official, who discussed previously undisclosed aspects of the remains issue on condition of anonymity, said it probably will take months if not years to fully determine individual identities from the remains, which have not yet been confirmed by U.S. specialists to be those of American servicemen.
The official did not know details about the single dog tag, including the name on it, or whether it was even that of an American military member. During the Korean War, combat troops of 16 other United Nations member countries fought alongside U.S. service members on behalf of South Korea. Some of them, including Australia, Belgium, France and the Philippines, have yet to recover some of their war dead from North Korea.
The 55 boxes were handed over at Wonsan, North Korea last Friday and flown aboard a U.S. military transport plane to Osan air base in South Korea, where U.S. officials catalogued the contents. After a repatriation ceremony at Osan on Wednesday, the remains will be flown to Hawaii where they will begin undergoing in-depth forensic analysis, in some cases using mitochondrial DNA profiles, at a Defense Department laboratory to attempt to establish individual identifications.
https://www.newsday.com/news/world/north-korea-war-remains-1.20232760
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)republican Draft-Dodger-in-Chief Dirty Donny got a box of mystery from the abyss during his epic #ShanghaiSurrender
What a sucky deal maker the republican casino hustler is.
DetlefK
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Runningdawg
(4,520 posts)According to the 1994 RAND Corporation research report..With no exception, every North Korean claim associated with human remains has shown to be false. For example, these 46 sets are actually fragments of more than 70 individuals, the report said. Forensic analyses suggested none were American, the report said.
Vinca
(50,278 posts)Don is the worst deal maker of all time. He gives North Korea exactly what they want and we get squat. He ends the Iran deal after Iran has gotten all their embargoed money back and now they don't have to do anything for the gesture. We can only guess what he's delivered to Pootie in secret. And then he severs ties with all the sane parts of the world. "Art of the Fuck Up."