Ron Mark hopes for return of NZ soldiers' remains from N Korea

The Minister of Defence, Ron Mark is pinning his hopes on there being a final peace settlement with North Korea soon, so the remains of the only New Zealand serviceman to die in the Korean War whose body was never recovered can be brought home. Mr Mark was attending a repatriation ceremony held yesterday at the Whenuapai Airforce Base for two servicemen who died while serving in South Korea a few years after the end of the Korean War. It was the fourth part of the project Te Auraki, The Return, in which the defence force brought home soldiers, sailors and airmen buried overseas between 1955 and 1971. RNZ Veterans' Affairs Reporter Andrew McRae was at Whenuapai.