{"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:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?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; 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. Meanwhile, it was sending 158 metal temporary transfer cases that could be used [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[214],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-north-korea"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ozh1-kQw","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=80136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80136\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=80136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=80136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=80136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}