WORLD : N. Korea Offers Remains of GIs
North Korea has offered to return the remains of 11 U.S. soldiers killed in the Korean War in the 1950s, South Korea’s Yonhap News Agency said today.
Yonhap quoted an unnamed government official as saying North Korea proposed that U.S. congressmen visit Pyongyang to receive the remains.
The official said the offer was made during a recent meeting of military officers in the truce village of Panmunjom, on the Korean border.
U.S. and South Korean military spokesmen said they had no information about the reported offer.
North Korea handed over the remains of five U.S. servicemen at Panmunjom last year to a delegation from the House Veterans Affairs Committee. The return, the first of its kind, was widely seen as an attempt by North Korea to improve relations with the United States.
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