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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – When the United States arrives in Hawaii on Wednesday, the US military will begin a process of identification of the process that experts said.
United Nations Command and US Defense POW / MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) secure UNC flags over transit boxes of US soldiers killed in the 1950-53 Korean War, before returning United States for further processing and identification, in Wonsan, North Korea, July 27, 2018. Picture taken on July 27, 2018. Courtesy US Forces Korea / Handout via REUTERS
The 55 boxes, draped in the blue and white flag of the United Nations, are each one of you in one person's arms.
Korean War, but also a message of good faith made by North Korean leader Kim Jong Un at his summit with U.S. President Donald Trump in June.
Paul Cole, an expert on the recovery of death in action and prisoners of war, who worked as a visiting fellow scientist at Hawaii's Central Identification Laboratory where the boxes will land.
The commingling of restores the violent impacts to which human beings are subjected in war.
Each bone, or fragment, offers a clue. The femur indicates height, the pelvis age, the face and skull national origin. The Clavicle and Teeth of the Ministry of Defense of the Ministry of Defense, said Cole, author of the book "POW / MIA Accounting: Searching for America's Missing Servicemen in the Soviet Union."
SIX DECADES OF WAITING
When to meet the size requirement, a piece to the Armed Forces Identification DNA Laboratory, where it will be analyzed and compared to family reference samples.
If the bone is too small, DNA analysis can not be done. Federal law prohibits the destruction of evidence in testing, and DNA analysis destroys the bone, said Cole.
Those kinds of challenges can be dragged out by many years.
"Problems such as inability to get a hold of a stumbling block," said Chuck Prichard, director of public affairs the POW / MIA Defense Staff Accounting Agency, the US military's main unit for finding and identifying missing members.
The identification process does not prove to be a person, but rather that they do not belong to anybody else, Cole said. Sometimes all families receive small fragments in the palm of a hand.
Still, the mission is loaded with expectations and political weight.
Trump last week thanked Kim for keeping the promise he made as part of their talks about North Korea's denuclearization.
"And I'm sure he will continue to fulfill that promise," said Trump, who has sentenced Vice President Mike Pence to Hawaii to receive the remains.
The U.S. State Department said it would resume attached to the field of activities of the Americans. A total of 5,300 American servicemen are believed to be in North Korea.
Gail Embery, Sergeant Coleman Edwards, had gone missing in Korea. She is hopeful that her father's remains on those arriving on Wednesday.
"I always knew that I would have to find my father. I always knew it in my heart, "Embery said. "I'm 73 now, and I'm still looking."
Reporting by Daphne Psaledakis in Washington; Additional reporting by Phil Stewart; Editing by Mary Milliken and James Dalgleish
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