South Koreans hold rare family reunions in North

Dozens of south Korean families continue to hold emotional meetings with their northern relatives at the Mount Kumgang resort.

The reunions are short and will only last till Tuesday, but for most of them this is a once in a lifetime opportunity.

This comes as second and last group of South Korean families, comprising 350 elderly people, crossed the border into North Korea on Sunday.

A first group of South and North Korean families were reunited on Thursday. The reunion ended with an emotional farewell on Saturday.

Million of Koreans, who were split by war, have been waiting to get back together for sixty years.

But only a small lucky group from the South and the North have been allowed to join in a bittersweet reunion.

Rail lines and other contacts between the two sides were first severed during the 1950-53 Korean War.

No peace deal has been signed since then, meaning that North and South Korea remain technically at war.

The latest much-anticipated reunion event went ahead despite a growing tension over the Joint US-South Korean military drill.

South Korea and the United States have launched another round of controversial wargames on the Korean Peninsula despite opposition from the North.

Senior North Korean officials have often accused Washington of plotting with regional allies to topple the country’s government.