SEOUL (AFP) - North Korea indefinitely postponed Saturday reunions for families separated since the Korean war, just days before they were to resume, leaving relatives "disappointed beyond description".
The highly symbolic and emotional meetings of selected families from the North and South, separated for six decades by the 1950-53 Korean War, would have been the first reunions in three years.
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