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DNA breakthrough returns Korean War soldier home after 7 decades

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DNA breakthrough returns Korean War soldier home after 7 decades
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In the scorched summer of 1950, as North Korean forces pushed deep down the Korean Peninsula, a 20-year-old soldier took his final stand on a rugged mountain ridge in Gunwi, a county located just north of the southeastern city of Daegu. A native of Miryang and the eldest of nine siblings, Pfc. Cho Cha-sang had enlisted just weeks earlier, stepping forward to defend a fledgling democracy in what would become known as the fierce Gunwi-Uihung Battle. He fell on Aug. 14, swallowed by the chaos of a

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