The Defense Department agency tasked with finding and repatriating the remains of American troops killed in the Korean War has been "met with silence" in its recent outreach to Pyongyang, a DOD official testified at a U.S. House of Representatives hearing on Tuesday.
Kelly McKeague, the director of the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA), told members of Congress that the Pentagon would be open to returning to North Korea next year to search for more soldiers' remains — a rare area of military cooperation between Washington and Pyongyang — but so far has not received any signals that the DPRK will allow them in.
The Defense Department agency tasked with finding and repatriating the remains of American troops killed in the Korean War has been "met with silence" in its recent outreach to Pyongyang, a DOD official testified at a U.S. House of Representatives hearing on Tuesday.
Kelly McKeague, the director of the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA), told members of Congress that the Pentagon would be open to returning to North Korea next year to search for more soldiers' remains — a rare area of military cooperation between Washington and Pyongyang — but so far has not received any signals that the DPRK will allow them in.
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