50 years after JSA killings, victims’ families underscore S. Korea-US military cooperation

PAJU, Gyeonggi Province — “I just hope for continued cooperation between our two countries.” Stacy Adams, a niece of 1st Lt. Mark Barrett, said Tuesday while visiting the Joint Security Area, where her uncle and Maj. Arthur Bonifas were killed by North Korean soldiers exactly 50 years ago. Both were US Army officers serving under the United Nations Command at the JSA. “The walk towards peace is sometimes a long one,” Adams told reporters. The deaths of the two officers, she said, “really brought