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By on April 6th, 2011 at 6:49 am

Brothers Reunited After Recovery of Korean War Remains

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It really is sad to see that even after all these years bodies from the Korean War are still being uncovered rather regularly.  However, it is good to see that for the sake of the families of the missing that the Korean government continues to do a great job finding and identifying these remains:

Two brothers killed in the Korean War will be posthumously reunited after the military recently recovered the younger sibling’s remains. They will be buried together at the Seoul National Cemetery soon.

According to the Ministry of National Defense, a special team searching for soldiers killed in the war recovered the remains of a soldier last October near Mount Baekseok in Yanggu, Gangwon. After DNA analysis, the body was identified as Sgt. Lee Cheon-wu, who joined the Army in September 1950, following his older brother Man-wu.

“Sergeant Lee was 19 years old when he joined the military, one month after his elder brother,” said Col. Park Sin-han, head of the remains recovery project. “To protect this country, the two soldiers walked 3,400 kilometers [2,113 miles], fighting in battles to enter Pyongyang and to recover Seoul. They served in different units, and sadly never encountered each other during the war.”

Park said the elder brother, who was a 20-year-old staff sergeant, was killed in action in Gyeonggi in May 1951. Only four months later, his brother was killed in Gangwon.  [Joong Ang Ilbo]

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