SEOUL: Red Cross officials from the two Koreas will hold talks as planned on Friday in resuming cross-border family reunions after the North finally agreed to the South’s choice of venue.

In a message Thursday, Pyongyang dropped its request for the meeting to be held at its Mount Kumgang resort and agreed to the South’s choice of the border truce village of Panmunjom, where the ceasefire ending hostilities in the 1950-1953 Korean War was signed.

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