S. Korea resumes search for remains of executed Silmido operatives after five decades

South Korea’s Defense Ministry has resumed efforts to recover the remains of four members of the infamous “Silmido unit.” The search comes more than five decades after they were secretly buried following their executions over a failed covert mission linked to inter-Korean tensions during the Cold War. The ministry said Monday it held a ceremonial ground-breaking rite at Byeokje Municipal Cemetery in Goyang, Gyeonggi Province, before beginning excavation work at a site believed to contain the rem