CNN News:朝韩离散家属团聚活动重启

Today's down the middle coverage starts with an explanation of reunions on the Korean Peninsula.
For the first time in almost 70 years, some civilians separated by the Korean War are set to see their families again. In April, North Korea and South Korea made a historic agreement to formally end the Korean War. As part of that agreement, 57,000 people who were separated from their families in the war became eligible to participate in reunions.
What's set to take place in North Korea today won't include all of those people. Just 89 of them from the North and South are making the journey to see their loved ones. The lady you see here, Lee Kum Sum (ph) is one of them. She's now 92 years old and she's ready to see her 72 year old son for the first time since he was four and the two became separated while trying to flee the fighting. Those likely who wound up in the South weren't allow to see their relatives who wound up in the North. Now, they'll have 3 days to reunite with their families.
Reunions like this have taken place before but more than 75,000 Koreans died before they saw their loved ones again. As we mentioned, today's event is part of a bigger agreement between the two countries to move toward peace. The guns might have fallen silent in 1953 but much of the division has remained.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: North and South Korea have pledged to officially end the Korean War. South Korean President Moon Jae-in and his North Korean counterpart Kim Jong-un announced the historic accord while standing the demilitarized zone. The heavily fortified 2 1/2 mile wide strip of land has split the countries for more than six decades. After World War II, two super powers divided the Korean Peninsula along the 38th parallel. The Soviet Union occupied the North and the United States the South.
This resulted in the creation of two separate states. The Republic of Korea or South Korea and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea or North Korea. Most historians say the North invaded the South on June 25th, 1950 when the Korean War began. The North tells it's citizens that South Korea and America actually started the war. Over the next three years, more than 2 million Koreans died in the fighting including an estimated 600,000 North Korean civilians and 1 million South Korean civilians. Active hostilities ended in 1953 but technically the war is still ongoing because no peace treaty was ever signed. Since then North Korea's founder President Kim Il- Song, his son General Kim Jong-Il and grandson Marshal Kim Jong-un have all dialed up the rhetoric. But with the historic summit and new accord, the 65 year old war may finally come to an end.