Japan remains foul-up?

Might there have been some mistakes made with the DNA analysis done on the human remains North Korea returned to Japan?

Interesting to see where this story leads.

This entry was written by Robert Koehler, posted on March 11, 2005 at 1:03 am, filed under North Korea. Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. Trackbacks are closed, but you can post a comment.

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  1. Paul H. your flag
    Posted March 11, 2005 at 4:47 am | Permalink

    First I’ve heard that the remains had been cremated! I’d imagined a set of bones exhumed from a grave somewhere.

    I’m amazed that the scientists even went through the motions of trying to take a DNA sample and then “pronounce” on it, originally; why didn’t they just say “remains cremated, impossible to make a DNA identification”?

    Do the Japanese and Korean publics watch dubbed episodes of CSI on TV? I wonder if that’s given the respective public an unrealistic expectation of what forensic pathologists can and can’t do.

  2. Aaron your flag
    Posted March 11, 2005 at 8:34 am | Permalink

    CSI is shown in both subtitled (on OCN) and dubbed (on KBS, I believe) versions in Korea. I don’t think it has a huge following but some of my former students say they watch it.

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