US expresses frustration that North Korea is blocking efforts to recover remains of American casualties from Korean War
By Haley Britzky, CNN
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Updated 5:44 PM EDT, Wed August 14, 2024
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The US expressed frustration Wednesday that North Korea is continuing to refuse to allow teams into the reclusive country to recover the remains of American casualties from the Korean War.
“The United States government reaches out often to North Korea on any number of issues, one of which is this particular mission. There has been no response at all, at all levels of the United States government, in their communications with North Korea … We are at the mercy of geopolitics,” the director of Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, Kelly McKeague, said Wednesday.
Of the estimated 7,500 US service members still missing from the Korean War, 5,300 are believed to be in North Korea, McKeague said. Roughly 37,000 Americans were killed during the war and 8,000 were missing, according to the Pentagon. The war lasted from June 1950 to July 1953, when the Korean Armistice Agreement was signed.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/08/14/politics/dpaa-north-korea-us-military-casualties-korean-war/index.html
