OSAN AIR BASE, South Korea—Identifying bone fragments from those killed in the Korean War more than 65 years ago began the moment Pyongyang handed them over to the Americans.
Forensic experts from the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) landing at the North Korean airport at once sought to determine if all were really human and to look for evidence of racial or ethnic origin. Apparently none of the remains belonged to animals.
Now comes the tough part. Examine the bones hard and long enough, and they have tales to tell—how old a person was and how they died, whether killed in battle, in a plane crash or an accident, of some disease, or malnutrition. And there may be much that they reveal that various parties, including some American politicians, would rather conceal.
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