North Korea and the United States will resume talks next month on recovering the remains of US troops killed during the 1950-53 Korean War. Yonhap news agency, quotinng a Seoul foreign ministry official, said arrangements have been recently finalised between Pyongyang and Washington to resume talks on excavating and repatriating remains of US soldiers from the North. The unidentified official said the talks might take place in the Malaysian capital Kuala Lumpur, where the two sides had met on the issue previously. The US Department of Defense says 8,031 Americans are unaccounted for in North and South Korea following the 1950-53 conflict, in which the United States led a United Nations force fighting alongside the South. Joint US-North Korean search teams, in 33 missions in the North from 1996-2005, recovered the probable remains of 229 of them. But cooperation stopped in 2005 when the United States voiced concerns for the safety of its personnel as relations worsened over North Korea's nuclear programme.