Separated Korean families meet after 60 years

Several hundred elderly South and North Korean relatives clung to each other, rocking and weeping, as they met for the first time in 60 years at a reunion for families divided by the Korean War.

The emotional gathering at North Korea’s Mount Kumgang resort was the result of tortuous, high-level negotiations between Pyongyang and Seoul, which had nearly broken down over the North’s objections to overlapping South Korea-US military drills.

Television footage showed snow falling hard as 82 South Koreans — some so frail they had to be carried on stretchers — arrived at the resort in a convoy of buses to meet 180 North Korean relatives they have not seen for decades.