North and South Korea agree to hold new talks on reuniting separated families

North and South Korean unification ministers.

(Image credit: KOREA POOL / AFP)

published 1 June 2018

North and South Korean officials on Friday agreed to new rounds of inter-Korean negotiations to lower military tensions, reunite families separated for more than half a century, and build united sports teams for international competition.

The family reunification element is known as Red Cross talks, and the aim is to reconnect people whose families who were split by the division of the Korean Peninsula during the Korean War in the 1950s. Past Red Cross negotiations have been led by officials in each Korean branch of the Red Cross and can address other humanitarian topics as well.

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Bonnie Kristian was a deputy editor and acting editor-in-chief of TheWeek.com. She is a columnist at Christianity Today and author of Untrustworthy: The Knowledge Crisis Breaking Our Brains, Polluting Our Politics, and Corrupting Christian Community (forthcoming 2022) and A Flexible Faith: Rethinking What It Means to Follow Jesus Today (2018). Her writing has also appeared at Time Magazine, CNN, USA Today, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, and The American Conservative, among other outlets.

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