U.S. Military Prepares to Receive Soldiers Remains From North Korea

[MrRalgoman]

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/23/world/asia/soldiers-remains-north-korea.html

SEOUL, South Korea — More than six decades after the end of the Korean War, the American military is preparing for the remains of some of its soldiers killed in the conflict to finally return home.
On Saturday, the United States military in South Korea said it had moved 100 wooden coffins and American flags to the border with North Korea to prepare for the repatriation.
North Korea is expected to hand over the remains — believed to belong to some 200 to 250 American servicemen — following President Trump’s historic summit with North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un, in Singapore on June 12.
During that meeting, Mr. Kim committed to returning the remains of American troops recovered from major Korean War battle sites in his country and said he would make way for the “immediate repatriation of those already identified.”

[Grenadiac]

Next return the Pueblo you commie fucks

[elix]

But are they really? Or are they going to stall at the last second and demand more concessions again, like they already did to Pompeo and like they always do with everything?

I'll believe it when the remains are on the ground on a strip of US airport tarmac.

[MrRalgoman]

I don't know wtf this accepted answer thing is my b.

[elix]

If there's anything I've learned from watching North Korea behave on the world stage since I was old enough to be politically aware of what shit was going on over there, never give North Korea the benefit of the doubt. They've honed their arsenal of diplomatic trolling and manipulation to a precision art. Stalling and playing countries' sunk costs in the current moment against them is as second nature as inhaling oxygen in Pyongyang.

[EcksDee]

Fat chance, I'm sure the pueblo museum is like 40% of their gdp or something

[ignhelper]

There had been repatriation of bodies on both sides in the past, if I recall. I don't think this will be that big of an issue.

Frankly, its bodies. Its symbolic, but not as much as the main nuclear issues.

[Sableye]

they aren't dismantling launch sites they are dismantling their testing complex, kind of a big difference

[blizzox]

Good, more diplomatic peace offering please.