U.S. Announces Renewed Effort to Locate Korean War Era Remains
According to the article there are still 7,000 personnel unaccounted for from the Korean War and this team is hoping to find some of them with an increased search effort in South Korea:
The South Korean Ministry of National Defense Agency for KIA Recovery and Identification â and DPAA â the U.S. Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency â have formed a 10-member team to look for 50 American service members killed or missing from battles involving the U.S. 2nd Infantry Division, according to a ministry news release on Tuesday.
The investigators will survey six locations: Hongcheon in Gangwon province; Yangpyeong in Gyeonggi province; Changwon in South Gyeongsang province; Mungyeong and Sangju in North Gyeongsang province; and Yeongdong in North Chungcheong province. DPAA identified Hongcheon and Yangpyeong as potential spots tied to missing troops in January during a working-level coordination meeting by the U.S., South Korea and Australia, according to the release. Those areas are linked to battles during Chinese offensives in 1951, the ministry said.
You can read more at the link.
