China 'to open records' on US POWs

More than 8,000 US soldiers remain unaccounted for from the Korean War

China has agreed to grant the US access to its military records which might help resolve the fate of thousands of US soldiers who had gone missing during the Korean War and other Cold War-era conflicts

Washington has been asking China to open up military archives that it believes could help trace more than 8,100 American soldiers who went missing in action (MIA) or were taken as prisoners of war (POW) during the Korean War

There have been questions about China having taken soldiers from POW camps to undeclared detention sites inside China

Chinese archivists with security clearances approved by the People's Liberation Army will do the document searches before turning over relevant records to US analysts

"joint archival effort is expected to open more avenues of research to enable US specialists to narrow their searches for the specific locations where American remains may be buried"

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