China to share Korean war records with US

Beijing has agreed to a long-standing US request for access to military records from the Korean War, which may resolve the fate of the more than 8,000 US servicemen still unaccounted for, AP reported. A Pentagon offical said US researchers would not have direct access to the Chinese records, but Chinese archivists with security clearances would do document serarches and turn over relevant records to US analysts. Other details are yet to be worked out. The agreement is seen as a step forward for US-China military relations, as China has periodically cooperated with the Pentagon on matters related to the search for people missing in action, but has never before opened its military archives.