[2ndDivisionVet]

Trump says North Korea has already started to return remains of missing US troops from Korean War
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3663370/posts

[AppyPappy]

My wife has an uncle over there.

[caww]

Recovering remains of fallen soldiers has been an ongoing operation for decades..though stopping and starting several occassions. But clearing out the Dmz of landmines is news to me.... Between 1990 and 1994, North Korea turned over to the United States 208 boxes of remains that it had recovered unilaterally. Known colloquially as the “K208,” these boxed contained co-mingled remains and personal effects. DPAA has estimated that these boxes contain from 375-400 remains.

In 2007, North Korea repatriated the remains of an additional six U.S. military personnel, in conjunction with the arrival in Pyongyang of an unofficial U.S. delegation, headed by New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson

In January 2010, the DPRK proposed resuming joint recovery missions.20 The United States made no public response until August 2011, when the Obama administration announced that it had suggested resuming dialog on the issue.21 In October 2011, Robert Newberry, the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for POW and Missing Personnel, met with his North Korean counterpart in Bangkok to discuss the resumption of remains recovery operations in the DPRK. These missions were scheduled to resume in April 2012. However, following the collapse of the “Leap Day Agreement” on North Korea’s nuclear and missile programs, the U.S. announced that the remains recovery mission would be cancelled.

In a 2014 statement published by the Korean Central News Agency, North Korea blamed the United States “hostile policy” for causing the remains recovery missions to end. The statement warned that remains of American soldiers would soon be lost, as they were being “carried away en masse due to construction projects of hydro-power stations, land rezoning and other gigantic nature-remaking projects, flood damage, etc…