North Korea keeps US soldiers pledge
FALLEN SERVICEMEN RETURNED
NORTH KOREA has returned the remains of what are believed to be US servicemen killed during the Korean War, the White House said.
A US military plane made a rare trip from a US base in South Korea to a coastal city in the North to retrieve the remains.
The handover follows through on a promise Kim Jong Un made in June and is the first tangible result from the much-hyped summit with Donald Trump.
The White House confirmed that a US Air Force C-17 aircraft containing remains of fallen service members had departed Wonsan, North Korea, on its way to Osan Air Base, outside Seoul. A formal repatriation ceremony will be held there on August 1. At Osan, US servicemen and a military honour guard lined up on the tarmac to receive the remains, carried in boxes covered in UN flags. Details of what the US had picked up were unclear, but reports said previously that Pyongyang would return about 55 sets of remains from the 1950-53 war. The handover will be followed by forensic tests to determine if the remains are human, and whether they are actually troops killed in the conflict.