North Korea returns remains of 200 US war dead: Trump

Following last week's historic US-North Korea summit, North Korea has returned the remains of 200 US troops killed during the Korean War, Donald Trump says.

Trump announces that North Korea has returned the remains of fallen US soldiers

Trump announces that North Korea has returned the remains of fallen US soldiers. Source: Reuters

US President Donald Trump says North Korea has returned the remains of 200 American troops missing from the Korean War, although there was no official confirmation of the move from military authorities.

"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.

Trump met with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un at a historic summit last week in Singapore, and said in a news conference afterwards that Kim had agreed to return the remains of US soldiers.

About 7,700 US military personnel remain unaccounted from the 1950-1953 Korean War, US military data show.

According to the Pentagon, North Korean officials have indicated in the past that they have the remains of as many as 200 US troops. 

More than 36,500 US troops died in the conflict.


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