You don’t hear me say this very often, but the North Korean government actually did a very nice thing in assisting this elderly British man find his long dead brother in North Korea:

There can be no lonelier grave anywhere on Earth. Amid fields close to the North Korean

capital, Pyongyang, lie the remains of Flight Lieutenant Desmond Hinton, a British fighter pilot who flew for the United States Air Force as a member of United Nations forces in the Korean War.

Hinton is officially listed as missing in action (MIA), but his brother David, himself a retired Royal Air Force pilot, traced records of how and where Desmond died and managed to visit his grave in highly secretive North Korea.

“I was very close to my brother who was very much my role model and a father figure to me. I have never stopped missing him every single one of the 57 years since he died,” said David Hinton of Desmond, who was just 29 when he was shot down, leaving a widow and two small children.

David, now 77, is 12 years younger than Desmond, who had been awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross in World War II for shooting down two Japanese Zero fighter aircraft over Burma (now Myanmar). Having survived that ordeal, Desmond Hinton was one of 41 RAF officers seconded to the USAF during the Korean War.  [Asia Times]

Make sure to read the rest at the link about how David located and visited his brother’s grave in North Korea that is still honorably maintained to this day.  The British ambassador to North Korea David Slinn should be given some serious kudos for being able to pull this off.  I also found it interesting that Peter Hughes the former ambassador to North Korea is no longer in place there.  Maybe this is why?