A burial ceremony takes place at the Daejeon National Cemetery for four Navy officers killed in a fatal maritime patrol aircraft crash in the southeastern city of Pohang on June 1, 2025. [YONHAP]
The government on Friday posthumously awarded the Order of National Security Merit to four Navy officers who were killed in a fatal maritime patrol aircraft crash during training last year, the Navy said.
The Navy held an event commemorating the one-year anniversary of the deaths of the four Navy officers — two commissioned officers and two noncommissioned officers — in the southeastern city of Pohang and presented the decoration to their bereaved family members.
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