The Post reports that the inclusion of the issue in the agreement was a victory for Veterans’ Service Organizations which have lobbied the President.<\/p>\n
In recent days, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told his negotiating team, led by U.S. Ambassador to the Philippines Sung Kim, that the POW issue was important to Trump, and he \u201cinstructed Kim to negotiate for it,\u201d said State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert. Trump, during a news conference on Tuesday, said that he had received \u201ccountless\u201d phone calls from Americans asking for help on the issue.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo many people, during the campaign, would say is there any way you can work with North Korea to get the remains of my son back or father back,\u201d Trump said. “I said we don\u2019t get along too well with that particular group of people. Now we do. And he agreed to that so quickly and nicely. It was a nice thing.”<\/p>\n
As Trump headed into his landmark meeting with Kim Jong earlier in the day, a top Defense Department official told families of the missing soldiers that securing the remains and resuming recovery efforts is a top priority for negotiations. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n
US-North Korean teams repatriated 229 sets of US remains between 1990 and 2005 when relations between the countries deteriorated.<\/p>\n
On Monday, the Veterans of Foreign Wars, which has for years promoted recovery efforts for fallen soldiers, sent a letter to Trump, Pompeo and Defense Secretary Jim Mattis urging that a repatriation agreement be on the table during the president’s negotiations with Kim.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs the leader of the free world, we urge you to do everything in your power to ensure that those who paid the ultimate price for freedom during the Korean War are finally returned home to their families,\u201d Keith Harman, VFW’s commander in chief, wrote. He called the return of missing soldiers’ remains an unsettled issue of \u201cparamount importance\u201d to the VFW and its 1.7 million members.<\/p>\n
More than 35,000 American soldiers died on the Korean Peninsula between 1950 and 1953. The U.S. government estimates that 7,702 remain unaccounted for, with about 2,400 in South Korea.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Yet another reason for you to support the VSOs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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