S. Korea to strengthen efforts to recover war remains
- 6 years ago
국방부, DMZ 유해 공동발굴 대비해 관련 인력 증원
South Korea's defense ministry has decided to strengthen efforts to recover the remains of the dead from the Korean War.
By next year, the defense ministry plans to assign 48 more experts to recovery work, and it will quadruple the number of staff tasked with getting DNA samples from the relatives of fallen soldiers.
The defense ministry said the decision was a follow-up to agreements made at the inter-Korean summit in April,... such as turning the demilitarized zone into a peace zone.
Seoul and Pyongyang have been discussing possible joint work to recover war remains there too.
President Moon Jae-in said in his address on Memorial Day in June... that those remains will be his first priority when inter-Korean relations improve.
Of some ten-thousand sets of remains recovered in South Korea so far,... only about one percent of them have been identified.
South Korea's defense ministry has decided to strengthen efforts to recover the remains of the dead from the Korean War.
By next year, the defense ministry plans to assign 48 more experts to recovery work, and it will quadruple the number of staff tasked with getting DNA samples from the relatives of fallen soldiers.
The defense ministry said the decision was a follow-up to agreements made at the inter-Korean summit in April,... such as turning the demilitarized zone into a peace zone.
Seoul and Pyongyang have been discussing possible joint work to recover war remains there too.
President Moon Jae-in said in his address on Memorial Day in June... that those remains will be his first priority when inter-Korean relations improve.
Of some ten-thousand sets of remains recovered in South Korea so far,... only about one percent of them have been identified.