SEOUL, Jan. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea has identified the remains of two soldiers killed in the 1950-53 Korean War through DNA analysis after they were recovered from former battle sites near the inter-Korean border, the defense ministry said Friday. Pfc. Kim Sung-geun was presumed to have been killed during a battle in 1950 [...]
SEOUL, May 6 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea on Wednesday began its annual project to discover and identify the remains of soldiers killed in the 1950-53 Korean War, the defense ministry said, as this year marks the 70th anniversary of the outbreak of the three-year conflict. The project, which will run till the end of [...]
SEOUL, April 20 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea resumed excavating remains on its own of soldiers killed during the 1950-53 Korean War in the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) Monday, the defense ministry said, as Pyongyang remains unresponsive to calls to work together as agreed. Under a bilateral military accord signed Sept. 19, 2018, the two Koreas [...]
SEOUL, April 19 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea will resume an independent project of excavating remains of soldiers killed during the 1950-53 Korean War in the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) this week, the defense ministry said Sunday, as Pyongyang remains unresponsive to calls to work together as agreed. Under the bilateral military accord signed on Sept. [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — A memorial to honor men in uniform killed during the 1950-53 Korean War will be built inside the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) separating the two Koreas next month, the defense ministry said Saturday. The plan comes as the military officially wrapped up its eight-month project to retrieve remains of the [...]
CHEORWON, Jun. 25 (Korea Bizwire) – It took nearly 70 years before the first layer of soil was removed on a front-line hill bordering North Korea to reveal traces of the unsung heroes who had fallen in bloody battles at the height of the 1950-53 Korean War. About 300 soldiers from South Korea, the United [...]
SEOUL, May 7 (Korea Bizwire) — Forensic experts from South Korea and the United States began joint identification work on Tuesday for remains believed to be from soldiers killed in the 1950-53 Korean War, the defense ministry said Tuesday. The two sides plan to work together for the next four days to analyze remains that [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 25 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea found two sets of Korean War remains for the first time during its demining work in a notorious battle site inside the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) this week, Seoul’s defense ministry said Thursday. On Wednesday, the ministry’s Agency for KIA Recovery and Identification retrieved the remains from Arrowhead [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea on Monday held a solemn ceremony marking the repatriation of the remains of 64 soldiers who were killed in North Korea during the 1950-53 Korean War. President Moon Jae-in presided over the repatriation ceremony at Seoul Air Base in Seongnam, 40 kilometers south of Seoul, with the [...]