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## News Release

# Soldier Missing From Korean War Identified (Sund)

The Department of Defense POW/Missing Personnel Office (DPMO) announced todaythat the remains of a U.S. serviceman, missing in action from the Korean War, have beenidentified and returned to his family for burial with full military honors.

Army Cpl. James N. Sund, 28, of Oklee, Minn., will be buried on July 26 in Highlanding,Minn. After the 1953 armistice, it was learned from surviving POWs that he had been captured inJanuary 1951, marched north to a POW camp in Suan County, North Korea, and died while incaptivity when allies attacked the camp in April 1951.

Between 1991-94, North Korea gave the United States 208 boxes of remains believed tocontain the remains of 200-400 U.S. servicemen. North Korean documents turned over with oneof the boxes indicated that the remains, contained in the box, were exhumed near Suan County.This location correlates with Sund’s last known location.

Analysts from DPMO and the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command (JPAC) developedcase leads with information spanning more than 58 years. Through interviews with survivingPOW eyewitnesses, experts validated circumstances surrounding the soldier’s captivity and death,confirming wartime documentation of his loss.

Among other forensic identification tools and circumstantial evidence, scientists from theArmed Forces DNA Identification Laboratory also used mitochondrial DNA – which matchedthat of his sisters – to identify Sund’s remains.

For additional information on the Defense Department’s mission to account for missingAmericans, visit the DPMO web site at http://www.dtic.mil/dpmo or call (703) 699-1169.

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