Despite deceptions, North Korea’s track record on returning US war dead gives hope

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North Korea’s tactics of delaying and deceiving have been central to its diplomacy for decades, including charges of trying to pass off animal bones as war remains in 2011.

Forensic anthropologists with the Pentagon’s Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency will now weigh whether the North’s latest concession to President Trump this week of returning U.S. service members’ remains from the Korean War is what it appears to be.

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