Reunion centre to be gone

Tearful separation: North Koreans (on the bus) holding the hands of their South Korean relatives as they bid farewell at the end of a three-day family reunion at North Korea’s Mount Kumgang resort in this file photo from Aug 26, 2018. — AFP

THE country is demolishing a venue that for decades hosted tearful reunions of families separated by the Korean War and the division of the country, Seoul said, calling the move “inhumane”.

Millions of people were swept apart by the 1950-53 Korean War, which split the peninsula and separated brothers and sisters, parents and children, and husbands and wives.