Submarine Crew’s Remains Returned

U.N. officials returned the remains of nine North Korean submarine crewmen to their homeland 11 days after their craft was caught in a South Korean fishing net. U.N. honor guards handed over nine black wooden coffins to North Korean border guards in a 30-minute ceremony in Panmunjom, the truce village inside the Demilitarized Zone separating the two Koreas. Five North Korean military officers briefly crossed the border to inspect each coffin. A dozen North Korean soldiers saluted as honor guards took over the coffins and draped them in red cloth. The 82-foot North Korean submarine was seized June 22 in South Korean waters.