Fifty years after the last shots of the Vietnam War, the two nations that fought each other are meeting in New York conference rooms to do the quiet, painstaking work of accounting for their dead. Vietnam's Defence Minister and a senior US official reaffirmed a shared commitment to finding and identifying soldiers who vanished in a conflict that still haunts families on both sides — a reminder that wars do not end when the fighting stops, but only when their human costs are finally, honestly reckoned with.
Vietnam, US deepen defense ties with focus on war legacy remediation
The cooperation aims to locate and identify remains of Vietnamese and US servicemen missing during the Vietnam War, and to address ongoing consequences affecting communities in war-affected areas.