IV 
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, recov-
ery, 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 regard-
ing the research, investigation, recovery, and identifica-
tion 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 prece-
dent 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 re-
mains 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 in-
clement 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 lo-
cated 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 pos-
sible accounting of missing United States personnel: 
Now, therefore, be it 
Resolved, That the House of Representatives calls 
upon the United States Government to resume talks with 
the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea to make sub-
stantial progress in the research, investigation, recovery, 
and identification of missing and unaccounted members 
of the United States Armed Forces from the Korean War. 
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