China to Allow US to Tap History Archives
Here is another indication that relations between Washington and Beijing continue to improve:
Chinese officials have agreed to consider a U.S. request to search military archives that could yield clues to the fate of missing Korean War servicemen possibly held by China, the U.S. Embassy said Tuesday.
Beijing was “optimistic that a way could be found to access the documents,†the embassy said in a statement.
China also will help organize local support for U.S. investigations at sites where the remains of U.S. airmen from World War II, the Korean War and the Vietnam War might be found, it said. The probes should take place next year, it said.
The Chinese military ran prisoner-of-war camps in North Korea after intervening in the war in October 1950 to push U.S.-led United Nations forces back from the Yalu River separating China and North Korea. The Pentagon has said it has information that China took some U.S. POWs into China during the war.
Relatives of missing servicemen welcomed the news of China’s decision with wary optimism.
This is really good news that Beijing is going to allow US investigator to tap their archives to look for missing US POW’s. Hopefully, cooperation like this between the US and China can help find out what happened to the missing Korean War POW’s to finally give these families closure on what happened to their loved one over 50 years ago.
