The two sides agreed on an expanded schedule of six joint operations between April and November. Operations will begin in Kujang and Unsan, where joint teams have previously operated, with the potential to move to other areas later in the year as circumstances warrant. Exact site locations will be finalized in technical meetings in February. During the past three years, through U. S.-North Korean agreements, joint teams have recovered the remains of 29 soldiers. One has been identified by the U. S. Army Central Identification Laboratory, Hawaii.
Forensic examinations are underway for all the recovered remains.
Identifications of additional service members are expected within a few months. The agreement also included two joint archival reviews, in which U. S. archivists are granted access to documents relating to U. S. personnel lost or captured during the war. U. S. researchers conducted an archival review in museums and records collections in North Korea during 1997 and 1998. The U. S. side also continued to press to establish a mechanism for investigating reports of live Americans living in North Korea and to interview American defectors in North Korea. A two-man DPMO team has returned from Warsaw, Poland, following nearly two weeks there carrying out two objectives.