North Korea has agreed to a South Korean proposal to resume reunions of families separated since the 1950-1953 war, official media in Pyongyang say.<\/p>\n
The reunions will take place in a North Korean tourist resort on 19 September.<\/p>\n
South Korea’s President Park Geun-hye called last week for the resumption of the reunions, last held in 2010.<\/p>\n
Her appeal followed an agreement to reopen a joint industrial plant, the latest step in the easing of tension between the two countries.<\/p>\n
The latest statement on the reunions came from the North’s Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of Korea.<\/p>\n
It said: “The reunion of separated families and their relatives shall be made in Mt Kumgang resort on the occasion of the upcoming Harvest Moon Day.”<\/p>\n
Talks will take place between Red Cross officials from both sides on 23 August at Mt Kumgang to prepare for the reunions.<\/p>\n
Many families were separated at the end of the 1950-53 Korean War by the dividing of the peninsula. The two sides remain technically at war, because the conflict ended in an armistice and not a peace deal.<\/p>\n
The North Korean statement also called for the resumption of tourist trips to Mt Kumgang.<\/p>\n
The resort, the first major joint project between the nations, hosted thousands of South Korean visitors between 1998 and 2008 but tours were suspended after a North Korean soldier shot dead a tourist who strayed into a restricted area.<\/p>\n
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