North-South Korea determine to family reunions

North and South Korea have concluded to horde family reunions for families distant by a Korean War, according to media reports.

The reunions for 100 distant families will be hold Oct. 20-26 during Mount Kumgang, a review on a North’s easterly coast., South Korea’s Yonhap news group reported Tuesday. They will be a initial reunions given Feb 2014 and usually a second in a past 5 years.

The agreement, hold during a limit equal encampment of Panmunjom, grew out of another a dual Koreas reached dual weeks ago to finish a steep troops deadlock and revoke tensions, Britain’s Daily Mail

The BBC reported that a talks were being hold by Red Cross officials from both sides.

The dual countries sojourn technically during fight as a Korean War usually finished in an armistice. The discussions come after moving weeks on a Korean peninsula, that enclosed exchanges of glow during a limit and a depletion of thousands of South Koreans from a limit region. Tensions began when a limit landmine harmed dual South Korean soldiers. South Korea responded by broadcasting promotion messages into a North.

The dual sides reached an agreement to defuse a conditions after marathon talks, a BBC reported.

Thousands of families have been distant with small hit given 1953, when a fight divided a dual Koreas. Initiated after a ancestral North-South limit in 2000, a reunions were creatively annual events, though they’ve mostly been cancelled due to bad North-South relations.

Each reunion is deluged by tens of thousands of applications from South Korea, though usually a little commission are selected. The final assembly saw 100 from any side attending in a hugely romantic event.

About 66,000 South Koreans, many of them in their 70s or 80s, are on a watchful list for an contingent reunion, Yonhap reported. About half of a estimated 129,700 field for reunions have given died.

Contributing: Jessica Estepa

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