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HAMHUNG, North Korea -- Sixty-four years after the end of its war with the U.S., North Korea continues to dig up thousands of bombs, mortars and pieces of live ammunition, most of it American.

One bomb-squad member says he's lost five colleagues to explosions in his 10 years at the job. Maj. Jong Il Hyon bears a scar on his left cheek from a disposal mission gone wrong. He says he doubts experts who say cleanup will take 100 years. He thinks it will take longer.

Jong's unit, one of nine of its kind in North Korea, has disposed of about 1,200 explosives this year alone.

Virtually every major North Korea city was severely damaged in the Korean War, and hundreds of thousands of civilians were killed by U.S. saturation bombing. (AP) In this Friday, July 21, 2017, photo, Maj. Jong Il Hyon, 44, a member of a bomb squad for South Hamgyong, speaks to The Associated Press at a construction site on the outskirts of Hamhung, North Korea's secondlargest city, where workers unearthed a rusted but still potentially deadly mortar round in February. Over the years, Maj. Jong Il Hyon, a 10-year veteran, has lost five colleagues to explosions. He carries a lighter one gave him before he died. He also bears a scar on his left cheek from a bomb disposal mission gone wrong. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E) AN ANTONIO -- At least nine people died after being crammed into a sweltering tractortrailer found parked outside a Walmart in the midsummer Texas heat, victims of what authorities said on Sunday was an immigrant-smuggling attempt gone wrong.

The driver was arrested, and nearly 20 others rescued from the rig were hospitalized in dire condition, many with extreme dehydration and heatstroke, officials said.

“We're looking at a human-trafficking crime,” said San Antonio Police Chief William McManus, calling it “a horrific tragedy.”

One U.S. official said Sunday evening that 17 of those rescued were being treated for injuries that were considered life-threatening. The official spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because the information has not been publicly released.

Authorities were called to the San Antonio parking lot late Saturday or early Sunday and found eight people dead inside the truck. A ninth victim died at the hospital, said Liz Johnson, spokeswoman for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

The victims “were very hot to the touch. So these people were in this trailer