More than seven decades after the guns fell silent along the Korean Peninsula, Korea and the United States have embarked on a joint underwater expedition off the nation’s eastern coast to hunt for the submerged wreckage of American military aircraft downed during the 1950–53 Korean War. The Ministry of National Defense's Military Killed in Action Recovery and Identification Agency (MAKRIA) said Monday that the survey will run through Aug. 25 off the coastal counties of Yangyang and Gangneung in Gangwon Province. The operation marks the latest chapter in a long-standing bilateral effort to resolve one of the war's most lingering human tragedies: accounting for service members missing in action. The expedition unites roughly 40 personnel from MAKRIA, the Republic of Korea Navy's 1st Fleet, the Air Force's 18th Fighter Wing and the U.S. Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) — the Pentagon entity tasked with recovering lost personnel worldwide. Among the American contingent are specialized underwater archaeologists, mission planners and more than 10 U.S. Navy divers and support te