N. Korea OKs Pact on U.S. Remains
Prompted by an apparent breakthrough agreement with North Korea, the Pentagon said Friday that remains of perhaps half of the 8,100 missing U.S. servicemen from the Korean War could eventually be found and returned.
“Our guess would be that . . . 3,000 to 4,000 would be an accurate representation of what we could” recover, Defense Department official Alan Liotta told reporters.
Liotta, deputy director of prisoner of war and missing in action affairs, spoke after U.S. and North Korean negotiators Thursday agreed that Washington would pay cash-strapped Pyongyang $2 million for turning over 162 sets of remains in 1993 and 1994. Only five of those were positively identified as Americans missing since the 1950-53 Korean War.
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