thedrifter
10-07-02, 03:30 PM
Talks between the United States and North Korea on issues
related to accounting for MIA American soldiers ended yesterday
in Bangkok.
Led by Jerry D. Jennings, deputy assistant secretary of defense
for POW/Missing Personnel Affairs, the one-day session laid out
the U.S. vision for improving U.S. remains recovery operations
inside North Korea, as well as facilitating live sighting
investigations.
Jennings, addressing Colonel General Li Chon Bok of the Korean
People's Army, said "...our meeting gives each of us our first
opportunity to provide an overarching vision for the direction
in which we need to take the accounting issue in the future."
Jennings also spoke of past technical agreements, the result of
which led to the recovery of the remains of more than 170
American soldiers over seven years. But he emphasized that
progress is needed from the North Korean side to establish a
mechanism for resolving reports of the possibility of Americans
living or being held in North Korea.
He specifically called for access to American defectors living
in North Korea, in an effort to shed some light on such reports.
Preserving the safety and security of Americans participating in
recovery operations in North Korea is paramount, he added, and
that safeguards at the sites must preserve their scientific
integrity. He proposed that remains recovery operations be
expanded in frequency, beyond the locations where they have been
conducted in the past.
He called for follow-up technical negotiations to be held in
December in Bangkok. The North Koreans agreed to continue a
dialogue.
Teams of specialists from the U.S. Army Central Identification
Laboratory Hawaii will complete the third of three operations in
North Korea at the end of this month in Unsan county 60 miles
north of Pyongyang, as well as near the Chosin Reservoir in the
northeast part of the country. Similar U.S. teams have
conducted 24 operations in the seven years since 1996.
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Sempers,
Roger
related to accounting for MIA American soldiers ended yesterday
in Bangkok.
Led by Jerry D. Jennings, deputy assistant secretary of defense
for POW/Missing Personnel Affairs, the one-day session laid out
the U.S. vision for improving U.S. remains recovery operations
inside North Korea, as well as facilitating live sighting
investigations.
Jennings, addressing Colonel General Li Chon Bok of the Korean
People's Army, said "...our meeting gives each of us our first
opportunity to provide an overarching vision for the direction
in which we need to take the accounting issue in the future."
Jennings also spoke of past technical agreements, the result of
which led to the recovery of the remains of more than 170
American soldiers over seven years. But he emphasized that
progress is needed from the North Korean side to establish a
mechanism for resolving reports of the possibility of Americans
living or being held in North Korea.
He specifically called for access to American defectors living
in North Korea, in an effort to shed some light on such reports.
Preserving the safety and security of Americans participating in
recovery operations in North Korea is paramount, he added, and
that safeguards at the sites must preserve their scientific
integrity. He proposed that remains recovery operations be
expanded in frequency, beyond the locations where they have been
conducted in the past.
He called for follow-up technical negotiations to be held in
December in Bangkok. The North Koreans agreed to continue a
dialogue.
Teams of specialists from the U.S. Army Central Identification
Laboratory Hawaii will complete the third of three operations in
North Korea at the end of this month in Unsan county 60 miles
north of Pyongyang, as well as near the Chosin Reservoir in the
northeast part of the country. Similar U.S. teams have
conducted 24 operations in the seven years since 1996.
[Web version: http://www.defenselink.mil/news/Oct2002/b10072002_bt508-02.html]
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Sempers,
Roger