{"id":80136,"date":"2018-06-23T09:20:10","date_gmt":"2018-06-23T13:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=80136"},"modified":"2018-06-23T09:20:10","modified_gmt":"2018-06-23T13:20:10","slug":"coffins-at-intra-korean-border","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=80136","title":{"rendered":"Coffins at intra-Korean border"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stripes.com\/news\/pacific\/us-sends-coffins-to-border-with-n-korea-to-prepare-for-return-of-war-dead-remains-1.534347\">Stars &#038; Stripes<\/a> reports that the US Defense Department has sent 100 wooden &#8220;temporary transit cases&#8221; to the border between North and South Korea in preparation for the repatriation of the remains of folks who died in North Korea during the war.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> Meanwhile, it was sending 158 metal temporary transfer cases that could be used to send the remains home from Seoul\u2019s Yongsan Army Garrison south to Osan Air Base, the command said.<\/p>\n<p>The planned location for the return was not yet known, but officials said they were stationing the temporary coffins at the JSA since it is the closest point.<\/p>\n<p>It would be the first such repatriation in more than a decade and would be the first tangible benefit stemming from the summit.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>No date has been set for the transfer, DoD is just getting prepared for a dignified repatriation of Americans.<\/p>\n<p>It is believed that more than 5,000 sets of remains are still in North Korea, while another 2,000 Americans are still undiscovered in South Korea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stars &#038; Stripes reports that the US Defense Department has sent 100 wooden &#8220;temporary transit cases&#8221; &hellip; <a title=\"Coffins at intra-Korean border\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=80136\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Coffins at intra-Korean border<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[214],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-north-korea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=80136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80136\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=80136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=80136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=80136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}