{"id":28838,"date":"2015-09-08T08:17:04","date_gmt":"2015-09-08T08:17:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/north-south-korea-agree-to-family-reunions\/"},"modified":"2015-09-08T08:17:04","modified_gmt":"2015-09-08T08:17:04","slug":"north-south-korea-agree-to-family-reunions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/badminton\/north-south-korea-agree-to-family-reunions.html","title":{"rendered":"North-South Korea determine to family reunions"},"content":{"rendered":"<section id=\"module-position-OaARxuwSQJA\" class=\"storymetadata-bucket expandable-photo-module\">\n<aside class=\"single-photo expandable-collapsed\"><span class=\"toggle\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"image-credit-wrap\"><span class=\"js-caption-wrapper\"><span class=\"cutline js-caption\">A record design antiquated 20 Feb 2014 shows South Korean proprietor Kim Sung-yun, 95, reuniting with her younger sister from North Korea, Kim Suk-ryeo, 79, during a reunions of distant families during Mount Kumgang resort, Kangwon Province, North Korea&#8217;s easterly coast. South and North Korea concluded a same day to reason a reunions of families, distant by a 1950-53 Korean War, during a Mount Kumgang review on a North&#8217;s easterly seashore on 20 to 26 Oct 2015.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">(Photo: YONHAP, EPA)<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/aside>\n<\/section>\n<p>North and South Korea have concluded to horde family reunions for families distant by a Korean War, according to media reports.<\/p>\n<p>The reunions for 100 distant families will be hold Oct. 20-26 during Mount Kumgang, a review on a North&#8217;s easterly coast., South Korea&#8217;s Yonhap news group reported Tuesday. They will be a initial reunions given Feb 2014 and usually a second in a past 5 years.<\/p>\n<p>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&#8217;s <em>Daily Mail<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The BBC reported that a talks were being hold by Red Cross officials from both sides.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>The dual sides reached an agreement to defuse a conditions after marathon talks, a BBC reported.<\/p>\n<p>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&#8217;ve mostly been cancelled due to bad North-South relations.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p><i>Contributing: Jessica Estepa<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Article source: http:\/\/rssfeeds.usatoday.com\/~\/110307340\/0\/usatoday-newstopstories~NorthSouth-Korea-agree-to-family-reunions\/<\/a>\r\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A record design antiquated 20 Feb 2014 shows South Korean proprietor Kim Sung-yun, 95, reuniting with her younger sister from North Korea, Kim Suk-ryeo, 79, during a reunions of distant families during Mount Kumgang resort, Kangwon Province, North Korea&#8217;s easterly coast. South and North Korea concluded a same day to reason a reunions of families, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[13],"class_list":["post-28838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-badminton","tag-breaking-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28838\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}