North Korea Returned What It Says Are Remains of 55 U.S. War Dead

The wooden boxes arrived wrapped in white and blue U.N. flags. Inside lay what is thought to be the remains of American servicemen from the 1950-53 Korean War, returned from the North Korean coastal city of Wonsan by a U.S. military plane Friday morning and carried solemnly before an a honor guard at South Korea’s Osan Air Base.

The return of war dead came on the 65th anniversary of the armistice that effectively ended that same Cold War conflict.