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From: Andi Wolos & Bob Necci

(POW-MIA InterNetwork)

Re: NK Remains May Be American

Date: August 25, 2000

Remains in Korea May Be US Soldiers
The Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) - US forensics specialists excavating sites in North Korea recovered remains believed to be those of 14 American servicemen missing in action from the Korean War, officials said Thursday.

The remains are to be flown aboard a US Air Force plane from Pyongyang, the North Korean capital, to Yokota Air Base near Tokyo on Saturday for a United Nations Command repatriation ceremony.

The remains will then be taken to the Army Central Identification Laboratory at Hickam Air Force Base, Hawaii, for forensic examination and positive identification.

The 14 sets of remains are the most recovered in a single operation since excavations began in 1996, when communist North Korea first agreed to allow US searches on its territory. Twenty-six sets of remains have been recovered so far this year.

More than 8,100 US servicemen are still listed as missing from the 1950-53 war, although remains of fewer than half that number are believed to be recoverable.