Seoul to hold memorial service for U.N. troops killed in Korean War

SEOUL, Nov. 10 (Yonhap) -- South Korea will this week hold a memorial service
dedicated to the tens of thousands of U.N. forces killed during the 1950-53
Korean War, the Ministry of Patriots and Veterans Affairs said Monday.
The service will be held Tuesday at the world's only U.N. cemetery in the
southern South Korean city of Busan where the bodies of some 2,300 U.S. forces
are buried, it said.
A group of 50 Korean War veterans from Australia, Britain, Canada, New Zealand
and the United States will attend the ceremony, along with some 700 families of
fallen soldiers and government officials.
"The ceremony will be held Nov. 11, which also marks the end of the first World
War, while all Korean War veterans of the five nations will face the U.N.
cemetery in Busan at their homes at 11 a.m., Korean standard time, that day and
observe a moment silence to commemorate their comrades who fell during the war,"
the ministry said in a press release.
Over 36,000 service members from the United States alone were killed in the
three-year war, in which nearly half a million troops from 16 U.N. nations fought
in support of South Korea.
bdk@yna.co.kr
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