SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea repatriated six South Korean citizens and a corpse at a heavily defended border crossing on Friday, South Korea's Ministry of Unification said, in a rare humanitarian gesture amid persistent tensions between Pyongyang and Seoul.
The six crossed from North to South over the low concrete step that divides the two Koreas at Panmunjom, a jointly controlled "truce village" which straddles both sides of the Korean Demilitarised Zone and hosted the signing of the armistice that ended the 1950-53 Korean War.
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