wrinkles on his face there s still some of them left as i remember him from all those years ago. reunions like this have only taken place twenty times since two thousand apart from these state sanctions get togethers there s no way to contact each other phone calls and letters remain prohibited by pyongyang these north and south koreans have been permitted eleven hours together over three days. it s a painfully short amount of time for deeds aging families who are all too aware this may also be their final farewell. emotional meet up so there we can talk more about these reunions with journalist john kwan she is in the south korean capital seoul good evening and what can we glean from this round of cross border reunions how significant are they and do they signal an improvement in enter korean relations. well in the past ten seconds there was only four times at least families
i could recognize him from my past even if he s gotten old and he has wrinkles on his face there s still some of him left from my memory in his appearance. that. reunions like this have only taken place twenty times since two thousand apart from these state sanctioned get togethers there s no way to contact each other phone calls and letters remain prohibited by pyongyang these north and south koreans have been permitted eleven hours together over three days it s a painfully short amount of time for these aging families who are all too aware this may also be their final farewell. here washing the differing years we still have a lot more to tell you about including. arm chair athletes dream big video gaming
will continue to flow through ukraine as a transit country because that s the strategic relationship there putin was very skeptical he said any such deal would have to make economic sense and his spokesman after these talks last night was quoted saying you know that russia was thinking of taking measures against the countries that were trying to block the nord stream project so there s a lot of differences on that key energy relationship as well plenty of discussion very little agreed ok thank you very much. next the the other stories making news around the world the indonesian island of lombok has been struck by a magnitude six point three earthquake its epicenter was in the island s northeast the quake caused panic and local damage is no word yet on casualties this is the latest in a number of quakes to his lombok the most severe on august fifth killing nearly five hundred people. the first family reunions between north and south koreans in
trust before i don t think that trust level could been established in less than ten minutes that trusts kim jong un that if he says he denuclearize this he doesn t need any proof you have to wait and see. transatlantic felt fellow in the asia program at the german marshall fund in the united states thank you so much for your insights. now north and south koreans have gone their separate ways since the armistice ended the korean hostilities and one nine hundred fifty three japanese photographer you sukey she has taken a series of portraits of people on both sides of the demarcation line and where motifs depict similar lives but the surroundings prosperous south improv version north could hardly seem more different the idea is simple and the results are astonishing.
because that would not take us to peace never have seen it military activity will not lead to peace and and militancy is not going to take us to peace but dialogue plant interaction a formidable positive one between us and the international community through the good offices of germany will certainly lead just to where we want which is peace. and that was the former afghan president speaking a short while ago with you meantime north and south koreans have gone their separate ways and the armistice ended the korean hostilities back in one nine hundred fifty three a japanese photographer has taken a series of portraits of people on all sides of the mark a show line similar motifs depict similar lives but the surroundings prosperous south impoverished north could hardly seem more different the idea is simple the results astonishing.