Separated for over six decades, tears and joy at Korean reunions


  • World
  • Thursday, 20 Feb 2014

SEOUL (Reuters) - More than 100 South Koreans, many of them on wheelchairs, crossed the world's most heavily fortified border on Thursday to be reunited with family members living in the North whom they have not seen since the 1950-53 Korean War.

The reunions were held after the North set aside a demand for the suspension of joint military drills by the South and the United States, which it had demanded as a pre-condition.

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