South Korea - Offer to Return Remains of Chinese Troops Killed in Korean War - NYTimes.com The remains of hundreds of Chinese soldiers killed in the Korean War may finally return home, 60 years after an armistice ended the fighting. During a visit to China last week, President Park Geun-hye of South Korea offered to send back the remains of about 360 Chinese solders buried in a cemetery just south of the demilitarized zone separating North and South Korea. The offer is seen as a friendly gesture highlighting warming ties between the former adversaries. A Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman, Hua Chunying, said Wednesday that she did not know where Beijing stood on the offer but that the issue should be "resolved on the basis of humanitarianism."