About 90 families held their first reunion events in three years for relatives wrenched apart by the Korean War for more than six decades. The brief reunions are set to total just 11 hours over the next three days in North Korea’s tourist resort of Mount Kumgang after the neighbors renewed exchanges this year following a standoff over Pyongyang’s nuclear and missile programs. For a closer look at those reunifications, the BBC’s Mary Bicker reports.
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