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.

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

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)

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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