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S Korea honours its war dead on 61st Memorial Day
President Moon Jae-in urged South Koreans to embrace a spirit of unity at a speech at a ceremony at the National Cemetery in Seoul in remembrance of the soldiers who fought in the 1950 Korean War.
S Korea honours its war dead on 61st Memorial Day
On the eve of South Korea's Memorial Day, a man at Seoul's National Cemetery at the gravestone of a family member who died in war. (June 5, 2017) / TRT World and Agencies
By Staff Reporter
June 6, 2017

President Moon Jae-in attended the sixty-first South Korea Memorial Day ceremony on Tuesday to commemorate the men and woman who died during the battle which erupted after the North invaded the South.

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