Panel to Aid Probe of Alleged Korea Killings

An outside panel will advise the U.S. military in its investigation of allegations of Korean War killings of civilians at No Gun Ri, the Pentagon said. American veterans and South Korean villagers have said that U.S. soldiers killed as many as 400 refugees in the South Korean hamlet in the early weeks of the war. Members of the panel include former Republican Rep. Pete McCloskey of California and retired Army Col. Young O. Kim, a U.S. battalion commander in Korea during the war who chairs a war memorial foundation in Los Angeles.