U.S., NORTH KOREAN NEGOTIATORS AGREE TO REMAINS RECOVERY OPERATIONS

[Mike Davino <mdavino@yahoo.com>]

Another agreement on remains recovery anounced on the
DoD website:


No. 322-00 
(703)695-0192(media) 
IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 9, 2000
(703)697-5737(public/industry) 


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U.S., NORTH KOREAN NEGOTIATORS AGREE TO REMAINS
RECOVERY OPERATIONS 

The Department of Defense announced today that U.S.
and North Korean negotiators have reached an agreement
in which teams of specialists will jointly recover the
remains of Americans missing in action from the Korean
War. 

This will be the fifth consecutive year that the
United States has conducted remains recovery
operations in North Korea. During the past four years,
the joint teams have conducted 12 remains recovery
operations and recovered remains believed to be those
of 42 U.S. servicemen. Three have been positively
identified, with approximately 10 more in the forensic
identification process. 

The agreement, following three days of negotiations in
Kuala Lumpur, expands similar operations that have
been conducted since 1996. Similar talks with North
Korea broke down in December 1999 without agreement.
The North Koreans returned to negotiations June 7. 

The U.S. component of the joint recovery teams will
include 20 members. Five operations are scheduled in
Unsan and Kujang counties, a distance of approximately
60 miles north of the capital of Pyongyang. Each
operation is scheduled to last approximately 25 days,
with the first beginning June 25. The final operation
of 2000 will end Nov. 11. 

Remains recovered through these operations will be
flown by U.S. military aircraft from Pyongyang under
escort of a U.S. uniformed honor guard to Yokota Air
Base, Japan. 




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