70 Korean War MIAs have been identified from remains

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70 Korean War MIAs have been identified from remains released after 2018 Kim-Trump summit
Steve Liewer Jan 31, 2021
Omaha World Herald

...So far, Jin’s team has identified 70 U.S. soldiers from the bones returned by North Korea in 2018 — a group the accounting agency calls “K55” in reference to the number of cases they were sent in. It also distinguishes them from “K208,” a large set of remains shipped from North Korea in the early 1990s. The K208 set includes remains from at least 400 people. It produced new identifications as recently as 2018.

Jin expected the K55 remains to be highly mixed up — or “commingled,” to use the forensic anthropologists’ term — and they were.

DNA sampling shows K55 contained remains from at least 250 people. About 170 of those are American. The rest are from other countries and believed to be primarily South Korean...

https://omaha.com/news/state-and-regional/70-korean-war-mias-have-been-identified-from-remains-released-after-2018-kim-trump-summit/article_7a2f221e-5d0d-11eb-8a47-c79f05efd3e9.html

Once past the recitals at the beginning of the article there is a lot of information concerning the history of the return of remains from the Korean conflict, and the progress and advances made by the forensic anthropologists from the U.S. Department of Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency’s Korea Project.

[DashOneBravo]

1. Good news

That’s a great organization recovering the dead.


A lot of the missing are from the 31st Infantry Regiment. That’s the same unit that were also part of The Battan Death March in WW2.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/31st_Infantry_Regiment_(United_States)