US suspends effort to recover Korean war remains this year amid silence from Pyongyang

The United States military said on Wednesday that it has been unable to reach North Korean officials to discuss the recovery of American service members who died and were left behind in the Korean war, a new indication of fraying relations between the two nations.The Defence Department agency that recovers human remains from past wars said in a statement that US efforts to communicate with the North Korean army regarding the resumption of joint recovery operations in 2019 have been suspended…