President Lee Jae Myung honors a deceased U.S. service member who died in the 1950-53 Korean war at a memorial ceremony held at Seoul Air Base in Gyeonggi before their repatriation to the United States on June 5. [JOINT PRESS CORPS]
President Lee Jae Myung on Friday called the mutual repatriation of 13 Korean and U.S. soldiers’ remains a “meaningful milestone” that consolidated the bilateral alliance built upon “blood and dedication.”
“The efforts to find and return not only our own fallen heroes’ remains, but those of our ally, to their bereaved families are the most powerful testament to an alliance forged in blood,” Lee said during a memorial event held at Seoul Air Base in Gyeonggi.
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Friday’s ceremony welcomed the remains of 10 Korean soldiers from Hawaii. Korea, in turn, was set to repatriate the remains of three U.S. service members to Hawaii.
