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| US troop remains can never be recovered: North Korea | |
| 2005-06-02 | |
SEOUL - Remains of American soldiers killed in North Korea during the 1950-53 Korean war can never be recovered, Pyongyang has said in response to Washington's decision to suspend its search operation.
Pyongyang retaliated late on Wednesday, saying Washington had brought a military overtone to the humanitarian mission. "The US side's use of even the humanitarian work, which had been underway as requested by itself, for a sinister political and military purpose, once again fully revealed what a foolish group the present US administration is," North Korea's official KCNA news agency quoted a spokesman for the (North) Korean People's Army as saying. The North said no member of a US recovery team had ever been harmed in their work in the country. Pyongyang called the US administration "rude", adding that since it saw Washington as violating the joint agreement on searching for remains, "the KPA side has decided to totally dismantle its side's investigation and recovery unit", KCNA reported the army spokesman as saying. "In consequence, the US remains buried in North Korea can never be recovered but are bound to be reduced to earth with the flow of time," the spokesman said. Larry Greer, spokesman for the Pentagon's POW/MIA office, said US personnel have worked inside North Korea every year since 1996, undertaking five one-month missions annually to search for remains of Americans. During that time, US teams have recovered more than 220 sets of remains, Greer said. Of those, 25 have been identified and returned to their families for burial with full military honours, Greer said. There was a previous suspension in late 2002 and early 2003, the Pentagon said. | |
| Posted by:Steve White |
| #9 The Kim-beasts have the pirated intelligence ship USS Pueblo on display as a "museum" of various American atrocities and misdemeanors. The ship was captured by the Norks in 1968, apparently at the instigation of the Walker spy ring, whose data would be much more useful if a Soviet puppet could manage to grab some of the cryptographic hardware such ships were known to carry. The mission was a success, and some equipment was indeed captured, though the Walkers' role was unknown until recently. Since it still exists and the US has never acknowledged a transfer, the ship has not been stricken from the US Navy list. My recommendation is that we declare this museum a target vessel and blow it to shreds with a MOAB or some similarly emphatic device. This seems to be the only language the Norks understand. |
| Posted by: Atomic Conspiracy 2005-06-02 22:14 |
| #8 is that you Rumfelt? |
| Posted by: bigjim-ky 2005-06-02 17:04 |
| #7 Ya mean the release of "Team America" on home video has upset Kimmy that much? |
| Posted by: BigEd 2005-06-02 16:57 |
| #6 Just another nail in his coffin. |
| Posted by: bigjim-ky 2005-06-02 11:56 |
| #5 Gromky- Checked out the Ebay page - those screenshots (especially the one of the American giving a maniacal thumbs-up) look for all the world like the clips that used to end each ep of MST3K... Mike |
| Posted by: Mike Kozlowski 2005-06-02 07:46 |
| #4 one report described him (Dresnok) as âa chronic complainer, lazyâ and âdefiant to authority.â ummmm..lets see....I'm lazy, I complain alot, and I hate authority....what to do...what to do.. *light bulb* thats it!..I'll defect to the NORKS! |
| Posted by: Red Dog 2005-06-02 03:55 |
| #3 Interesting big about Americans defecting to North Korea. Scroll down past the sale and read. |
| Posted by: gromky 2005-06-02 03:23 |
| #2 It's time to mine their harbors. |
| Posted by: Red Dog 2005-06-02 01:32 |
| #1 This is not likely to induce the US to provide food, oil, etc. to North Korea. The DPRK is slightly smaller than Mississippi with only about 21% of its land is arable and only 2.5% is planted in "permanent crops". Even if NorK agriculture were less third world, they couldn't feed their population of 22.9M people. KJI's bizarre foreign policy can only increase the continuing increase in donor fatigue and hunger will give way to famine and death. |
| Posted by: RWV 2005-06-02 01:10 |