Prime Minister Kim Min-seok, middle, and Protection Minister Ahn Gyu-back, middle proper, attend an enshrinement ceremony for unidentified Korean Warfare stays on the Seoul Nationwide Cemetery in southern Seoul, Monday. Yonhap
The federal government on Monday held a joint enshrinement ceremony for the stays of 141 unidentified troopers killed in the course of the 1950-53 Korean Warfare.
The ceremony befell on the Seoul Nationwide Cemetery in southern Seoul, presided over by Prime Minister Kim Min-seok and attended by Protection Minister Ahn Gyu-back and different senior authorities and navy officers, in keeping with the protection ministry.
The enshrined units had been excavated at 34 former Korean Warfare battlefield websites throughout the nation between March and November this 12 months, the ministry stated.
Amongst them had been 25 units of stays excavated from White Horse Ridge in Cheorwon, Gangwon Province, as the federal government resumed the venture on the South’s facet of the Demilitarized Zone separating the 2 Koreas for the primary time in three years in October.
The unidentified stays can be saved on the ministry’s Company for KIA Restoration & Identification primarily based on the nationwide cemetery till their identities are confirmed and they’re returned to their households. KIA stands for killed in motion.
For the reason that ministry launched the excavation venture for Korean Warfare stays in 2000, it has excavated some 11,000 units of stays and confirmed the identities of 268 of them.
