ROK army conducts excavation of human remains from Korean War with international students

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After the Korean War... thousands of soldiers who died were left behind, or buried in makeshift graves.
Operations to find the remains of the brave UN troops who gave their lives defending South Korea have been ongoing for decades.
Our Won Jung-hwan has more.

Over six decades after the Korean War, South Korea's military is still searching for the remains of more than one-hundred-23-thousand missing service personnel. Some 9,800 sets of remains have been unearthed since the recovery project began in 2000, but there are still many more remains to be excavated and returned to their loved ones, including those of the foreign soldiers who were dispatched to the Korean peninsula.

'Operation Glory' was the code name for the operation to transfer the remains of United Nations Command casualties from South Korea at the end of the Korean War. Even though the operation has expired, the effort still continues.

To show South Korea's gratitude to its wartime allies, the Agency for KIA Recovery & Identification, a branch of the defense ministry, invited around 30 international students to the site of a Korean War battlefield where the excavation operation is currently taking place.

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"It's been very very interesting to see how you excavate the remaining of the bodies of the soldiers. So it's been a long and tough day but I'm glad I came here."

Friday's event provided an opportunity to directly experience the excavation being done in Gwangju, Gyeonggi-do Province by units from the 55 Army Division.

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"The current operation is a large-scale excavation project. When the remains are unearthed, they are sent to the military's central identification laboratory to confirm their identity"

Search crews armed with shovels and other tools regularly travel to former battlefields and burial sites across the country to sift through the earth for human remains and personal belongings.

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"Recovering war remains is like finding a needle in a haystack. But through this event, citizens from Korea's wartime allies will know that the nation's search crews are working to honor fallen heroes and the sacrifice they made. Won Jung-hwan, Arirang News."



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