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went down, and we don't know what happened to him. >> reporter: lieutenant harold downs is one of more than 8,000 u.s. service members listed as unaccounted for from the korean war. for years the u.s. and the north koreans cooperated inside north korea, together finding over 200 sets of remains. that all ended years ago, but suddenly there is a glimmer of hope for families since the visit of bill richardson with cnn's wolf blitzer to north korea. >> the north koreans started out by saying, you know, if we can better our relationship, we can give you more remains of your soldiers, and he handed me pictures of american remains, and he said we found close to 100 in the southern part of the country, and we want normal relations to resume and the joint recovery efforts between our militaries.