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Thursday, September 30, 1999
Pentagon says files can shed no light on No Gun Ri mystery
Associated Press
WASHINGTON - U.S. officials said Wednesday they could shed no additional light on events covered in a report by The Associated Press on killings in the opening days of the Korean War.
"We just have no information in historical files to lend any clarity to what might have happened in July 1950," said Pentagon spokesman P.J. Crowley.
Col. Edwin Veiga, an Army spokesman, said: "The U.S. Army Center for Military History has researched its files and has found no information that substantiates the claim that U.S. Army soldiers perpetrated a massacre of South Korean civilians at No Gun Ri."
At the State Department, spokesman James Foley said he was unaware of the report.
But he said, "We follow the law of war."
"We have to make determinations about the applicability of the laws of conflict and of war. And we take that very seriously and apply those laws," Foley said.
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