North and South Korea meet again to arrange reunions of families separated by war

2 Koreas meet to arrange split families’ reunions

SEOUL, South Korea — South Korea’s Unification Ministry says Red Cross officials have crossed the border into North Korea to work out details for next month’s reunions of families separated by war more than a half-century ago.

The meeting Friday in the North’s border city of Kaesong comes a week after the two sides failed to decide on a venue for or the scale of the reunions — popular on both sides of the border.

The two sides last held reunions in late 2009, one of the few areas in which the two divided Koreas consistently cooperate. The reunions would be a sign of efforts to improve relations worsen by the March sinking of a South Korean warship that an international investigation blamed Pyongyang. North Korea denies involvement.