41 US troops’ remains identified after returned home from North Korea

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American Military News by Cheryl Hinneburg 10/27/2019

A 2018 meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un resulted in 55 boxes of remains and relics from American armed forces being sent home to the U.S. for possible identification.

Along with the bodies of U.S. troops, pairs of boots, two helmets, several canteens, dozens of buttons, buckles, a bayonet handle and a dog tag are amongst items turned over by North Korea, according to Fox News. The North Korean efforts to return those remains have been the result of a wider U.S. effort to establish diplomacy with the isolated nuclear state.

“We are up to 41,” Air Force Lt. Col. Kenneth Hoffman said as he spoke on the number of U.S. armed service members identified thus far.

Hoffman said, “We can’t speculate at this point about how many more soldiers may be identified.”

Army Master Sgt. Charles H. McDaniel of Vernon, Ind., who was 32, and Army Pfc. William H. Jones of Nash County, N.C., who was 19, were the very first to be identified by the Defense Department when those first two soldiers’ remains were repatriated from North Korea back to the U.S.

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