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A woman looks through a wire fence decorated with ribbons written with messages wishing for the reunification of the two Koreas at the Imjingak Pavilion near the border village of Panmunjom, which has separated the two Koreas since the Korean War. North Korea on Friday agreed to resume reunions of families separated by the 1950-53 Korean War, the latest in a series of conciliatory gestures from a country that was threatening South Korea and the U.S. with nuclear war almost a year ago. (Ahn Young-joon/AP Photo) SEOUL, South Korea — Families separated by the Korean War more than 60 years ago held tearful reunions Thursday as the two Koreas seek to ease tensions that have remained high since the North detonated a nuclear device last year. The emotional visits of more than 80 South Koreans with family members in the North illustrated both the hope for reconciliation and the depth of the division between the two countries that bar their citizens from having contact with their loved ones. “Let me hold you in my arms,” 92-year-old South Korean Kang Neung-hwan told his 63-year-old son from North Korea upon meeting him for the first time. The two men, both with stooped backs, cried as they clutched each other without a word, according to pooled media reports from the Mount Geumgang resort in North Korea where the reunions are held. Kang didn't find out until last year that his wife had been pregnant when he fled the North at the height the 1950-53 war. South Korean President Park Geun-hye has described the resumption of reunions, last held in 2010, as the starting point for improved relations between the Koreas. Last week, officials from the two countries met inside the heavily armed demilitarized zone for the first high-level talks in years and the reunions survived North Korea's threat to pull out in protest over annual South Korean-U.S. military drills due to start next week. In the first round of the reunions, the South Koreans chosen traveled to Mount Geumgang will spend less than 72 hours with the loved ones they will probably never see again. In the second part of the reunions, the North Koreans selected by their government will spend the same amount of time with relations from the South. Millions of Koreans were separated from their families during the 1950-53 Korean War, which ended in a truce and without a peace treaty. Only 1,700 South Koreans have been reunited with relatives through government efforts that began in 2000. A previous round due to be held in September, was canceled by the Kim Jong Un regime just days before they were set to start as relations soured. Last week's bilateral talks “opened up potential for a broad range of agreements, including one on a summit at some point,” Chang Yong-seok, a senior researcher at Seoul National University's Institute for Peace and Unification Studies, said by phone. North Korea is already pushing for a revival of South Korean tours to Mount Geumgang. The resort once generated hundreds of millions of dollars for the cash-strapped North before tours from the South were suspended over the death of a tourist shot by a North Korean guard in 2008. South Korea is open to talks on the tours although the issue should not be tied to family reunions, Unification Ministry spokesman Kim Eui-do told reporters Jan. 10. North Korea's nuclear weapons program remains the biggest stumbling block to improved relations, Seoul University's Chang said. The United Nations tightened economic sanctions against the North after it conducted its third nuclear test a year ago and the North then threatened nuclear strikes against the United States and South Korea. North Korea cites a military threat from the U.S. for continuing its nuclear program and has demanded talks on a peace treaty with the U.S. before stopping its arms development. The U.S. and South Korea say the North must show signs it's dismantling its nuclear program before they can agree to the restart of multinational negotiations last held in 2008. The reunions also coincide with U.S. and South Korea military exercises set to begin on Feb. 24. The North's National Defense Commission led by Kim threatened to cancel the meetings earlier this month unless the exercises were annulled or delayed. The start of the family visits also came a day after confirmation that John Short, a 75-year-old Australian missionary, had been detained in North Korea. The North has held another missionary, Korean-American Kenneth Bae, for more than a year and this month rescinded an invitation for a U.S. human rights envoy to travel to Pyongyang to discuss his release.
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सोल, २० वैशाख (रासस÷सिन्ह्वा) ः प्रत्येक दशमा सातजना कोरियाली नागरिकले कोरियाली प्रायद्वीपमा पूर्ण रुपमा अस्त्रबिहीन कोरिया सम्भव छ भनेका छन् । एक सर्वेक्षणमा यस्तो देखिएको कोरियाली राजधानी सोलबाट बिहीबार प्राप्त समाचारमा जनाइएको छ । उक्त सर्वेक्षणमा सहभागीमध्ये दश जनामा सातले कोरियाली प्रायद्वीपलाई पूर्ण रुपमा आणविक अस्त्र बिहीन बनाउन सम्भव भएको बताएका थिए । रियलमिटर नाम दिइएको उक्त सर्वेक्षणमा सहभागीमध्येका ७१.४ प्रतिशतले यस्तो बताएका जनाइएको छ । दक्षिण कोरियाका ५०१ जना नागरिकलाई सो सर्वेक्षणमा संलग्न गराइएको उक्त सर्वेक्षण संस्थाले जनाएको छ । उक्त सर्वेक्षणको परिणाम बुधबार सार्वजनिक गरिएको जनाइएको छ । त्यसैगरी दक्षिण कोरियाको सत्तारुढ डेमोक्र्याटिक पार्टीका करिब ९० प्रतिशत सदस्यहरुले पनि कोरियाली आणविक अस्त्रबिहीन कोरियाली प्रायद्वीप सम्भव रहेको बताएका थिए । त्यसैगरी यहाँको विपक्षी दल लिबर्टी कोरिया पार्टीका करिब आधाजति सदस्यहरुले भने आणविक अस्त्रबिहीन कोरिया सम्भव नरहेको बताएका छन् । गएको शुक्रबार अर्थात् अप्रिल २७ मा दक्षिण कोरियाली राष्ट्रपति मुन जाय इन र उत्तर कोरियाली नेता किम जोङ उनबीच शान्तिवार्ता र सम्झौता भएको थियो । सो सम्झौताअनुसार यी दुई देशले युद्ध अन्त्यको घोषणा गरी आगामी दिनमा एक अर्काको विरुद्धमा प्रचारप्रसार नगर्ने जनाएका थिए । सो सम्झौताको कार्यान्वयन पनि सुरु भइसकेको छ । गत शुक्रबारको सो सम्झौताको पालना गर्दै दक्षिण कोरियाले उत्तरको सीमामा राखिएको उत्तर कोरियाका विरुद्धमा प्रचार गर्ने संयन्त्र हटाएको छ । दक्षिण कोरियाको रक्षामन्त्रालयले सो कुराको जानकारी दिएको छ । कोरियाली प्रायद्वीपमा सन् १९५३ पछि कोरियाली जनता त्रास र अन्योलमा बाँच्न बाध्य छन् । कोरियाली युद्धका कारण छुट्टिएका परिवारबीच अझै पुनर्मिलन हुन नसकेको अवस्थामा दुई कोरियाबीचको यो पछिल्लो वार्ताले मिलनको आशा पनि थपेको बताइन्छ । पश्चिमा लगायतका विश्वका सञ्चारमाध्यमहरुले कोरिया युद्धपछि पहिलो पटक दुई देशका उच्च नेताहरुबीच भएको हालैको यो दुर्लभ भेटले आगामी दिनमा कोरियाली प्रायद्वीपमा शान्ति आउने र दुई कोरियाको एकता हुन पनि सक्ने सम्भावना रहेको बताइरहेका छन् । गएको शुक्रबार सम्पन्न भएको दुई कोरियाली उच्च नेताहरूको भेटवार्ताले कोरियाली जनतालाई मात्र नभएर दक्षिण कोरिया, जापान, अमेरिकालगायत विश्व समुदायलाई पनि शान्तिको लागि राहत प्राप्त हुने सङ्केत देखिएको बताइएको छ । उत्तर कोरियाले अमेरिका र जापानसँग पनि वार्ता गर्ने जनाएको छ । गतवर्षमात्र अमेरिका र उत्तर कोरियाबीच ठूलो वाकयुद्ध चलेको थियो । त्यसपछि भने उत्तर कोरिया नरम बन्दै गएको छ । उत्तर कोरियाले गत वर्षको सेप्टेम्बर ३ मा छैटौँं तथा त्यस समयसम्मको सबैभन्दा ठूलो आणविक परीक्षण गरेको थियो । त्यस क्षेप्यास्त्र परीक्षणले कोरियाली प्रायद्वीप हुँदै संसारमै ठूलो हलचल ल्याइदिएको थियो ।