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\nWhile the United States and North Korea struggle to get nuclear talks back on track, negotiators moved forward with efforts to bring home the remains of more American troops killed in the 1950-53 Korean War. <\/p>\n
\nWhile the United States and North Korea struggle to get nuclear talks back on track, negotiators moved forward with efforts to bring home the remains of more American troops killed in the 1950-53 Korean War. <\/p>\n
Also of interest was North Korea\u2019s 70th anniversary parade- no ballistic missiles were present for the occasion.<\/p>\n
U.S. and North Korean generals met Friday in the truce village of Panmunjom to discuss the way ahead, more than a month after the repatriation of 55 cases, said to contain the remains of U.S. service members.<\/p>\n
The talks came as the longtime adversaries are otherwise locked in a diplomatic stalemate over efforts to persuade the North to abandon its nuclear weapons program.<\/p>\n
\u201cParticipants discussed military-to-military efforts to support any potential future return of remains,\u201d UNC spokesman Col. Chad Carroll said Sunday in an email. More details were not released.<\/p>\n
The return of the 55 cases in late July was the first such repatriation in more than a decade. President Donald Trump hailed it as a tangible outcome of his June 12 summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.<\/p>\n
But experts noted it was just the start of a long process, with more than 7,600 Americans still missing from the war, including 5,300 believed to have been lost in North Korea.<\/p>\n
Trump and Kim agreed at the Singapore summit to resume the long-stalled search for the remains, \u201cincluding the immediate repatriation of those already identified\u201d as part of a four-point declaration that mainly focused on a promise to try to denuclearize the Korean Peninsula.<\/p>\n
The return of the 55 cases fulfilled part of that promise, but U.S. officials are pushing to resume searches in North Korea. The recently returned remains, mostly bones and other fragments, were flown to Hawaii for analysis and identification.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Although unrelated, the resumption of talks concerning the repatriation of US war dead, and the lack of ballistic missiles in the 70th anniversary parade are promising signs.<\/p>\n
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