Seoul says North Korea destroying facility that hosted war-separated families

The reunion centre is located at the Diamond Mountain (AP)

North Korea is demolishing a South Korea-built property that had been used to host reunions of families separated during the 1950-53 Korean War, the South’s government said on Thursday.

Relations between the two neighbours are at their worst in years, with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un continuing to flaunt his expanding nuclear weapons programme and declaring to abandon long-standing goals of inter-Korean reconciliation while describing the South as a permanent enemy.