The Us-Dprk 1994 Agreed Framework And The Us Army’s Return To North Korea

Abstract

The quest to regularize US-DPRK relations has proved extremely complex and time-consuming. Initially the effort, which dates from 1992, centered on the road map spelled out in the October 1994 bilateral Agreed Framework. One of the most successful undertakings in building co-operation and mutual trust was the US Army-Korean People's Army Joint Recovery Operations of 1996- 2005. This chapter reviews the history of the US Army's effort in North Korea between 1996 and 2005, and assesses its diplomatic, political and military consequences as they relate to the normalization of US-DPRK relations. Finding Corporal LeBoeuf was part of a complex US-DPRK effort to erase the legacy of mutual hatred and mistrust lingering from the Korean War (1950-53), with the aim of normalizing relations. The United Nations Command (UNC) and North Korean People's Army (KPA) signed a new Agreement on Remains-related Matters on 24 August 1993. Keywords: 1994 bilateral Agreed Framework; Corporal LeBoeuf; North Korea; North Korean People's Army (KPA); United Nations Command (UNC); US Army; US-DPRK relations