[lbo-talk] China opens Korean War archives to US

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China opens Korean War archives to US
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Wednesday, December 28, 2005 (Beijing):

Chinese officials have agreed to consider a US request to search military
archives that could yield clues to the fate of
missing Korean War servicemen.

Beijing was "optimistic that a way could be found to access the documents,"
the US Embassy said in a statement.

China will help organise local support for US investigations at sites where
the remains of US airmen from World War II,
the Korean War and the Vietnam War might be found.

The probes are likely to be conducted next year.

The Chinese military ran prisoner-of-war camps in North Korea after
intervening in the war in October 1950, to push US-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 US POWs during
the war. (AP)