Deidra Johnson
South Korean and North Korean family members reunite during the Separated Family Reunion Meeting at Diamond Mountain resort in North Korea on Thursday, Fe. 20, 2014
Some 80 elderly South Koreans, long cut off from family members by the Korean War, arrived in North Korea on Thursday for a brief reunion with loved ones they have not seen in decades.
Credit: Reuters/Kim Hong-Ji A visitor (L) looks towards the north through a pair of binoculars near the demilitarized zone separating the two Koreas, in Paju, 55 km (34 miles) north of Seoul January 31, 2014, on the occasion of Seolnal, the Korean Lunar New Year's day.
Seoul, South Korea (CNN) -- Families torn apart for more than 60 years -- separated by the Korean War -- began to reunite at a mountain resort in North Korea Thursday. Without any regular forms of communications between the two Koreas, the family members have gone decades without phone calls, letters or emails -- unable to know whether their loved ones are alive or dead.
The reunions are scheduled for late February Following a series of border talks held this week, South Korean officials said Friday that North Korea agreed to let families separated by the decades-old Korean War reunite sometime in February. On Wednesday, North Korean had officials threatened to cancel the reunions due to a joint South Korean and U.S.
It was the first war we could not win. At no other time since World War II have two superpowers met in battle. Now Max Hastings, preeminent military historian takes us back to the bloody bitter struggle to restore South Korean independence after the Communist invasion of June 1950.
Best way to understand what's the fuzz going in Korea right now is to go back and review the history to have a better insight about the origin of hostilities plaguing us until today. Korean War Video - public domain
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