Pyongyang, the North Korea (CNN) – a top North Korean General offered Sunday to return the remains of several hundreds killed during the war of Korea, Governor of the new - American Mexico Bill Richardson said.
General Pak Rim Su said Richardson that the bodies were discovered recently in North Korea.
Richardson, meets with officials in Korea North to help reduce tensions in the region, describes the offer as a "very positive gesture".
Everything remains returned is "better than nothing", said the war Korea Alumni Association President Bill Mac Swain. But he noted that there are potential pitfalls.
"I am worried that what we get is a bunch of things that we will never discover," he said.
Investigators are still trying to identify several bodies over 200 boxes stuffed remains and personal items that North Korea sent to United States between 1990 and 1994, he said.
"The problem is that the bones were scattered in boxes." "There were all sorts of different things that make it very difficult for them to even determine how many people were in the boxes," said Mac Swain.
The end of the war of Korea midnight July 27, 1953, after three years of fighting that killed millions - including just over 54,000 American soldiers, according to the Ministry of defence.
More than 8,000 members of the U.S. are still missing Korea, war according to the Office staff of the Defense prisoner of war/Missing.
For more than four decades, U.S. attempts to persuade the Korea North to return the remains of additional U.S. have failed.
But between 1990 and 1994, Northern Korea exhumed and returned to what she claimed were 208 sets remains 208 boxes.
In 2007, on the eve of the preliminary peace talks North Korea presented in four series remains believed to be those of American soldiers killed in the war of 1950-53 Korea.
Remains, aluminium caskets, were delivered by soldiers Korea North to the guards of honour of the United Nations, during a rainy brief ceremony at Panmunjom on the demilitarized zone separating the two Koreas. They have recovered from Unsan County in the North, where it is believed that the American people about 350 have been killed in fighting between u.s. troops and Chinese, shortly after China entered war on the side of the North Korea.
At this time, 209 sets remains were returned to the United States. only seven had been identified.
Prior to 1996, most relics excavated and returned by the North Korea were too poor to identify. The United States asked Korea North to stop more exhumation until an agreement was reached for spouses. That agreement gives access to the Communist country United States solitary to look for evidence of u.s. soldiers killed during the war.
But the u.s. Government temporarily suspended these trips in Korea North in 2005, according to the defence of war/Missing personnel office prison.
Mac Swain, 80, stated that finding remains is not only a question of statistics and the science.
"My company it y two persons missing in action." We don't really know nothing thereon, and it is 60 years later. ... I'd like for them to be able to find these two guys, "he said."
But Northern Korea reasons may not be altruistic, Mac Swain said.
"I am afraid that it is more political than humanitarian." ... They use our dead to continue their earnings. This is another way to look at. ... But we must find (the missing). "We need to return home" said Wolf Blitzer of the .CNN in Pyongyang, North Korea and Catherine e. Shoichet, Greg Botelho and Brian Walker has contributed to this report.
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