Evidence of American POWs in the Soviet Union
In May, Pentagon officials claimed they had no evidence showing that Korean War-era U.S. soldiers were imprisoned by the Soviet Union — a statement that was a lie.
A little more than a month after President Donald Trump met with North Korea’s Kim Jong-un, the communist dictator’s regime sent home 55 coffins supposedly containing the remains of American MIAs from the Korean War (shown; AP photo). On August 1 at Pearl Harbor, Vice President Mike Pence received the fragments of what presumably are American GIs, Marines, and aviators, who now await identification.
At least some of the families of America’s missing men from the Korean War hope they might finally bury, 65 years later, long-dead loved ones on American soil.
But identification won’t be easy, if what is past is prologue. As the New York Times reported, forensic examiners have identified only a little more than one-third of 50 sets of remains that came home in the past. “The rest sit in storage.”
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