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Benito Joaquín Milanes, Special Envoy
Panmunjom, DPRK, July 16 (PL) Military Commanders of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) and the United States. They agreed on the resumption of search for soldiers considered missing in this region during the 1950-53 war.
During the first triennium of the second half of the year According to official figures, more than 33,000 American soldiers and officers were killed in the last century.
The mortal remains of about 16% of the total deceased soldiers were not found between 1996 and 2005 previously
until a body was found physically, the legal sciences consider a missing person and forensic experts only detected in the old war scenes in the north of here, the remains of some 220 US military.
In Washington, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said that 16% of the bodies of those who died in this war have never been found.
He expressed the opinion that the talks between the DPRK's generals and the United States. they were "productive and cooperative and resulted in firm commitments".
The Chief Negotiator of the United States. At the aforementioned talks and the head of the United Nations General Command deployed to South Korea, Lieutenant-General Michael Minihan said the dialogue will continue Monday.
On this occasion, the roadmap for research must be redefined. of some 5,500 American soldiers considered as still missing because their bodies were not found, he transcended them.
Also arranges the transfer to the United States. More than 200 human remains of Americans found in battlefields over 65 years old and who have been Pyongyang guards for several decades.
On June 12, at the summit held in the capital of Singapore, presidents Kim Jong-un and Donald Trump, agreed to recover the remains of the US military who died during the armed conflict in that peninsula.
Also an immediate repatriation of those already identified, according to the letter of an agreement disclosed on the occasion, inter alia
The leaders of the DPRK and the United States. They exchanged praise last week for the joint efforts made personally to improve bilateral relations and to implement in good faith the joint declaration signed in Singapore.
They also stressed the sincere mutual approach focused on the opening of a new future between the DPRK and the United States. United
In this area there is technically a war conflict because this bloody war (1950-1953) was not stopped by a peace agreement.
On July 27, 1953, a truce was agreed by the parties to the conflict. umbrella of a so-called armistice, still in force legally and recognized by the belligerents.
The most recent meeting between high-ranking military commanders of both countries took place in this badly demilitarized zone nine years ago. The blackout came after the break-up of the six-party talks between Russia, China, Japan, South Korea and the United States. and the DPRK
Next, the delegations sought the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula and the cancellation of atomic tests that the DPRK was conducting with a persuasive and defensive character.
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