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.

Bill: 114-hres-799
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Rangel, Charles B. [D-NY-13]
Introduced: 2016-06-24
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Asia

Conflicts and wars

Diplomacy, foreign officials, Americans abroad

Military personnel and dependents

North Korea
Latest action: action_date: 2016-09-07
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific.

Summaries:
action_date: 2016-06-24
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p>Calls upon the U.S. government to resume talks with the Democratic People's Republic of Korea to make substantial progress in the research, investigation, recovery, and identification of missing and unaccounted members of the U.S. Armed Forces from the Korean War.</p>

tv_txt: IV 114th CONGRESS 2d Session H. RES. 799 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 ); 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 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

That the House of Representatives calls upon the United States Government to resume talks with the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea to make substantial progress in the research, investigation, recovery, and identification of missing and unaccounted members of the United States Armed Forces from the Korean War.