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According to the sources, Kim’s body seemed to have been thrown from a car and was discovered beheaded. The U.S. military first found a body thought to be that of an East Asian 35km from Baghdad in the direction of Fallujah at 10:20 p.m. Tuesday (Korean time) and contacted the Korean military. An official from the Korean Embassy in Iraq and president of Gana Trading Kim Chun-ho confirmed the body was that of Kim Sun-il.

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