N. Korea Releases Remains to U.S.
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Remains believed to be those of 15 soldiers missing in the Korean War were delivered to the U.S. military in a ceremony coinciding with Veterans Day. A U.N. honor guard removed the caskets from the plane that flew them from Pyongyang, the North Korean capital, to the U.S. Yokota Air Base near Tokyo, said Master Sgt. Eudith Rodney, spokeswoman for U.S. Forces Japan. The nationalities of the dead were not immediately clear. U.S. troops led the allied forces representing the U.N. that battled North Korea in the 1950-53 war.
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