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SEOUL - South Korea on Thursday (Sept 8) offered to hold talks with North Korea on reunions of families separated by the 1950-53 Korean War, in its first direct overture under President Yoon Suk-yeol despite strained cross-border ties. The surprise proposal came days before the thanksgiving holiday of Chuseok, when the two Koreas have in the past held family reunions....
SEOUL--South Korea on Thursday offered talks with North Korea to discuss a reunion of families separated by the 1950-53 Korean War, in its first direct overture under President Yoon Suk-yeol despite strained cross-border ties.
South Korea on Thursday offered to hold talks with North Korea on reunions of families separated by the 1950-53 Korean War, in its first direct overture under President Yoon Suk-yeol despite strained
This is its first direct overture since President Yoon Suk-Yeol took office in May
Millions were separated across a border when fighting in the Korean War suddenly came to an end in 1953.