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Duluth: US President Donald Trump says North Korea has returned the remains of 200 US troops missing from the Korean War, although there was no official confirmation of the move from military authorities.
US President Donald Trump holds up the document that he and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un signed in Singapore agreeing to the repatriation of the remains of US military personnel missing in action from the Korean War.
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“We got back our great fallen heroes, the remains sent back today, already 200 got sent back,” Trump told a crowd of supporters during a rally in Duluth, Minnesota, on Wednesday.
US officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, said on Tuesday that, in coming days, North Korea would hand over a “sizeable number” of remains to United Nations Command in South Korea, and they would then be transferred to Hickam Air Force Base in Hawaii.
A casket containing the body of an unidentified American soldier, killed on the Korean battlefields, is lowered by longshoremen from the USS General Randall onto US soil on March 22, 1951.
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Trump met North Korean leader Kim Jong-un at a historic summit in Singapore last week, and said in a news conference afterwards that Kim had agreed to return the remains of US soldiers.
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