Abstract
The mission of the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command (JPAC) is to conduct global search, recovery, and laboratory operations to identify unaccounted-for Americans from past conflicts in order to support the Department of Defense’s personnel accounting efforts. Currently, JPAC focuses mainly on World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War. Of these major conflicts, the Korean War generates about half or more of JPAC’s identifications each year. There are multiple ways JPAC gets access to the unaccounted-for American remains from the Korean War, such as exhumations of the Korean War unknown remains from the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific or recovery missions in North Korea. In this chapter, we focus on a large-scale commingled assemblage of missing Americans from the Korean War called “the Korea 208” (K208) that the United States government received from the North Korean government in the early 1990s. The goal of this chapter is to present the analytical procedure of the K208 assemblage that originally contained as many as 600 commingled individuals.
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