North Korea agrees to resume family reunifications with South Korea

North Korea has reached an agreement with South Korea to resume family reunions of those separated in the Korean War.

The reunions will take place in a North Korean tourist resort on September 19^th. South Korea’s President Park Geun-Hye had urged for the continuation of the family reunifications last week.

North Korea's Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of Korea stated, “the reunion of separated families and their relatives shall be made in Mount Kumgang resort on the occasion of the upcoming Harvest Moon Day."

Red Cross officials from both countries will meet on August 23^rd at the Mount Kumgang resort in order to prepare for the reunions. 

Thousands of families were separated at the end of the Korean War, which lasted from 1950 to 1953.

The two countries technically remain at war since the conflict ended with an armistice. The divided families have not been able to see each other since the end of combat.

STORY WRITTEN BY: SPOON JUNG