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Ron Martz: Return of fallen troops is a nation’s high priority
Trump deserves credit for securing remains to give families of Korean War dead closure
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Vice President Mike Pence, left, Commander of U.S. Indo-Pacific Command Adm. Phil Davidson, center, and Rear Adm. Jon Kreitz, deputy director of the POW/MIA Accounting Agency, attend at a ceremony marking the arrival of the remains believed to be of American service members who fell in the Korean War at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii, Wednesday, Aug. 1, 2018. North Korea handed over the remains last week. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
When President Donald Trump announced in June that North Korea had agreed to repatriate the remains of American service members who died there during the Korean War, it was largely overshadowed by the bigger question of denuclearization of the peninsula.