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114TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION H. RES. 799 

Calling on the United States Government to resume talks with the Democratic 

People’s Republic of Korea regarding the research, investigation, recovery, and identification of missing and unaccounted members of the 

United States Armed Forces from the Korean War. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

JUNE 24, 2016 

Mr. RANGEL (for himself, Mr. CONYERS, and Mr. SAM JOHNSON of Texas) 

submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the Committee 

on Foreign Affairs 

RESOLUTION 

Calling on the United States Government to resume talks 

with the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea regarding the research, investigation, recovery, and identification of missing and unaccounted members of the United 

States Armed Forces from the Korean War. 

Whereas more than 36,000 members of the United States 

Armed Forces died and nearly 103,000 were wounded 

during the Korean War, which began on June 25, 1950; 

Whereas of the approximately 8,000 members of the United 

States Armed Forces who remain unaccounted for from 

the Korean War, the remains of at least 5,300 Americans 

are believed to be in the Democratic People’s Republic of 

Korea (in this resolution referred to as ‘‘North Korea’’); 


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Whereas the United States and North Korea have a precedent of working together on issues related to American 

prisoners of war/missing in action (POW/MIAs) from the 

Korean War; 

Whereas North Korea has intermittently returned the remains of deceased members of the United States Armed 

Forces found in North Korea, including several thousand 

sets of remains in 1954, and varying numbers of remains 

in 1990, 1993, 1994, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2001, and 

2003; 

Whereas United States operations in North Korea to recover 

the remains of deceased members of the United States 

Armed Forces were suspended in 2005; 

Whereas the remains of deceased members of the United 

States Armed Forces in North Korea are being lost due 

to construction and development, the passing of North 

Korean observers of United States plane crashes, and inclement weather conditions; 

Whereas North Korea has reported uncovering the remains of 

deceased members of the United States Armed Forces in 

North Korea through agriculture and construction 

projects as recently as 2016; 

Whereas not all of the remains of Korean War veterans located at the National Memorial Cemetery in Hawaii (The 

Punch Bowl) have been identified; 

Whereas members of the Coalition of Families of Korean & 

Cold War POW/MIAs, the National League of POW/MIA 

Families, the National Alliance of Families, Rolling 

Thunder, the Korean War Veterans Association, the 

American Legion, the Veterans of Foreign Wars, and 

thousands of families are yearning and advocating for the 


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accounting of their loved ones and comrades in arms of 

the Korean War; and 

Whereas the mission of the United States Defense POW/MIA 

Accounting Agency (DPAA) is to provide the fullest possible accounting of missing United States personnel: 

Now, therefore, be it 

1 Resolved, That the House of Representatives calls 

2 upon the United States Government to resume talks with 

3 the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea to make sub4 stantial progress in the research, investigation, recovery, 

5 and identification of missing and unaccounted members 

6 of the United States Armed Forces from the Korean War. 

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