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Homecoming At Last

It was a sunny morning in Shenyang, capital of Liaoning Province in northeast China, on September 27. Soldiers of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) rehearsed for a special event at the airport—to welcome the “return” of the Chinese martyrs from the Republic of Korea (ROK) long after the War to Resist U.S. Aggression and Aid Korea (1950-53).

One day before that, the remains of the 117 martyrs were casketed in the ROK. It was the seventh batch of martyrs’ remains handed over according to an agreement signed by

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