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Rangel Resolution to Repatriate POW/MIAs and Abductees From North Korea
Posted on August 14, 2011
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Danny "Greasy" Belcher, Executive Director
Executive Director, Task Force Omega of KY
Inc.
Vietnam Infantry Sgt. 68-69
"D" Troop 7th Sqdn. 1st Air Cav.
Why is it that no congressman or senator will discuss live Afghanistan POW Bowe Bergdahl? They sure will get excited about "recovery" but shut up on "rescue". I guess dead service people are more important than live ones. I am not saying it is not very important to recover any POW/MIA remains. I am saying that live American POWs should be the first priorty. It sure is not as we see from the defeaning quiet on rescuing or trading Taliban POWs we have for POW Bowe Bergdahl. It is a national disgrace. Our Veteran and POW/MIA organizations are as much at fault. They do not even have a letter writing campaign or any real action to bring POW Bowe Bergdahl home. May God help him. He sure can not depend on American citizens to take any real action to save his life.
We must not forget the 12 or more American POWs who were seen in North Korea by Romanianin the 1980's working on a communist farm. This was revealed by the Romanian in Senate testimony. This was during the Senate Select Committee in 1993. We never heard what happened to these live Korean POWs.
Rangel Introduces Resolution to Repatriate POW/MIAs and Abductees From North Korea
July 27, 2011
WASHINGTON, D.C. Today, on the 58th Anniversary of the Korean War Armistice Day, Congressman Charles Rangel introduced a resolution calling on North Korea to return Korean War POW/MIA (prisoners of war/missing in action)s and abductees to their loved ones.
“As we pay tribute to the nearly two million Americans who answered the call to defend the freedom of Korea, we should not forget about those who never returned,” Rangel said. “There are still surviving POWs detained in North Korea who for more than sixty years have been unable to return home. I call on North Korea to work with us toward reuniting the thousands of American and Korean families with their missing loved ones.”
The U.S. Defense Prisoner of War and Missing Personnel Office (DPMO) lists more than 8,000 American POW/MIA servicemen who are unaccounted for from the Korean War. It is estimated that as many as 73,000 South Korean POWs were not repatriated. North Korea has consistently refused to discuss the POW issue and the exact number of South Korean POWs who were detained in North Korea after the war is unknown, as is the number of those still alive in North Korea.
In addition, approximately 100,000 South Korean civilians (political leaders, public employees, lawyers, journalists, scholars, farmers, etc) were forcibly abducted by the North Korean Army during the wartime have not been admitted, accounted for, nor repatriated by North Koreans. North Korea has never acknowledged civilian abductions.
“The pain of war is felt not only by those who serve but also by those left behind,” Rangel said. "This resolution seeks to provide some closure to the families and friends of the POW/MIAs who have waited too long to learn the whereabouts of their father, husband, or brother."
Among the objectives, Rangel's resolution encourages North Korea to repatriate any soldiers they have held captive since the Korean War, and calls upon the U.S. government to resume search and recovery operations in North Korea which was suspended in 2005.
Joint Field Activities (JFAs) conducted by the U.S government between 1996 and 2005 yielded over 220 sets of remains that are still being processed for identification at Joint Prisoners of War, Missing in Action Accounting Command (JPAC) in Hawaii.
"God has blessed me and brought me back home. I hope to bring some solace for the families of those who were left behind," added Rangel.
In the resolution, Rangel acknowledged the numerous organizations that have been working to bring awareness to this issue, including the National Alliance of POW/MIA Families, POW/MIA Freedom Fighters, Coalition of Families of Korean & Cold War POW/MIAs, Rolling Thunders Inc., Korean War Abductees Family Union, and The International Korean War Memorial Foundation POW Affairs Committee.
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