All the forces who fought against the North Korean/Red Chinese invasion did so under the flag and authority of the United Nations, whether it was the Kiwis, the Diggers, the GIs, the Turks or whoever. To this day it is called the UN command.
How, exactly, do you know that? Pentecostal "Word of Knowledge"?
I’m a vet who served in peacetime Korea, and I know enough about military history and traditions to be completely OK with the UN flag in this case.
Remains not solidly ID’d. Could be Brits, Canadians, Greeks, Diggers, or one of many other countries that sent token forces to the Korean war.
It’s the historical chain of command at play. It’s correct, smart and respectful to handle it this way.
I have little use for the UN, and it took a freak circumstance of Russia being absent from the Security Council that led to the UN actually accomplishing something good with military forces for once it’s sorry history.
These remains are probably American, but they went into battle in a post nuclear age hoping that the world had finally got smart by getting together to stop armed aggression by communist puppet states. No more Chamberlain style appeasement.
Many UN nations sent token or sometimes more significant forces. The US Korean War forces fought as Americans under American commanders, but the authority that made it all legal was UN, and it was a UN operation.
The fact that the UN has morphed into an America hating leach living on US taxpayer funding isn’t the issue here. To me, it just points out how shocking it is to see the UN flag associated with something honorable involving military action.
It was a long time ago and the UN has gone beyond downhill since, but removing the UN flag from those remains would be too much like the Stars and Bars banning social justice warrior tactics of our domestic Reds. Erasing history to fit current ideas isn’t learning from it.