6th Round of Reunions Unites Divided Relatives

A group of aging South Koreans traveled to North Korea and were briefly reunited with hundreds of relatives for the first time in more than half a century. The 100 South Koreans, most of them in their 70s or older, traveled by bus on a recently built cross-border road for three-day reunions at the Diamond Mountain resort on the North’s east coast.

This was the sixth round of reunions that are part of broader efforts by the two Koreas to increase ties, despite the international standoff over the North’s suspected nuclear weapons programs.