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Cemetery for North Korean and Chinese Soldiers

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to Beijing in June 2013, it was agreed that the remains of the Chinese soldiers would be repatriated directly to China. The exhumation of the remains started in December 2013 and on 17 March 2014, the repatriation of the remains of the 437 Chinese soldiers took place. 55 of the sets of remains were
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The graves are in the form of traditional Korean burial mounds with plain wooden markers facing north towards North Korea (approximately 5 kilometers away). The majority of the graves are marked 무명 (Pronunciation: mumyeong= Korean word: meaning = anonymous), while those of North Korean agents are
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marked with 간첩 (Pronunciation: gancheop = Korean word: meaning= spy) followed by the name if known. The cemetery receives few visitors because the South Korean intelligence services monitored the site to detect North Korean sympathizers, though the services say they no longer monitor the site.
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North Korea has refused to accept the repatriation of the remains of its personnel on the basis that North Korea claims sovereignty over all of Korea and the soldiers accordingly are already buried on Korean soil. Also, the acceptance of the bodies of agents would amount to acknowledgment of
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which then repatriated them to China. From 1981 to 1989, 42 sets of remains were returned in this manner, however in 1997, North Korea refused to accept any further Chinese remains. Following a visit by South Korean President
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and People's Volunteer Army soldiers recovered from battlefield exhumations across South Korea and for North Korean agents killed in South Korea since the end of the Korean War.
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and North Korean agents killed in South Korea since the end of the war. The cemetery formerly contained the remains of 437 Chinese
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Renovation plans for the cemetery were considered in 2012, but they met with opposition in South Korea and were not carried out.
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identified while the rest were unknowns. The remains are to be interred in the Resist America and Aid Korea Martyrs Cemetery in
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South Korea had previously returned the remains of Chinese soldiers to North Korea through the
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BBC News March 2016 report on repatriation of Chinese remains with video filed at the Cemetery
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The cemetery was established in July 1996 as a centralized burial place for the remains of
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Kim Sung-il, North Korean agent responsible for the bombing of
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Paju
South Korea
37°57′26″N 126°51′11″E / 37.95722°N 126.85306°E / 37.95722; 126.85306
North Korea
Korean
RR
Paju
North Korean
Korean War
People's Volunteer Army
repatriated
Korean People's Army
Neutral Nations Supervisory Commission
Park Geun-hye
Shenyang
Unit 124
Blue House raid
Korean Air Flight 858
Daejeon National Cemetery
Seoul National Cemetery
United Nations Memorial Cemetery
Busan, South Korea


"South Korean cemetery keeps Cold War alive"
Archived


"After Six Decades, Chinese Soldiers Killed in South Korea Head Home"

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