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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.

The Bush administration has turned down Iraq's offer to receive U.S. investigators to look into the fate of a missing Gulf War pilot. Instead, the United States will send Baghdad a diplomatic note asking whether Iraq intends to provide new information about the pilot, Lieutenant Commander Scott Speicher. He has been missing since his Navy F/A-18 Hornet was shot down over Iraq on January 17, 1991, the first night of the Gulf war. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld agreed with Secretary of State Colin Powell on the U.S. course of action. Mr. Rumsfeld said a diplomatic note sent through the International...