U.S. Gives Cash to North to Help in MIA Searches
A U.S. government representative handed a bundle of cash to a North Korean colonel across the world’s most heavily armed border to help finance searches for the remains of American soldiers missing in action from the Korean War, officials said.
The cash transaction was part of an agreement reached in Thailand last month between U.S. and North Korean officials on a new round of joint searches for the remains of American MIAs from the 1950-53 war, said a spokesman for the U.S. military in South Korea. He refused to divulge the amount of cash delivered.
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