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The North Korean government yesterday threatened to exact more severe punishment against captive American Christian human rights activist Aijalon Gomes if the United States keeps pressing to censure Pyongyang for sinking a South Korean warship. North Korea's government news agency said, "if the U.S. persists in its hostile approach toward the DPRK," it will "naturally be compelled to consider the issue of applying a wartime law to him," which could include the death penalty. Applying wartime law might make sense from North Korea's point of view because the war has never really ended. In June 2009, Pyongyang unilaterally withdrew from...

WASHINGTON -- The Pentagon says search teams have found the remains of seven American soldiers in North Korea. The soldiers have been classified as missing in action. The remains are being flown on a U.S. Air Force plane to Japan. They'll go to the military's central identification lab in Hawaii after that. More than 8,100 U.S. soldiers remain unaccounted for from the 1950-1953 Korean War. U.S. search teams have recovered 159 sets of remains in North Korea since 1996. Only 13 have been positively identified.