North Korea’s recent “peace offensive” continued on Monday, as state media announced that its Red Cross Committee had sent a letter to the South Korean Red Cross in advance of the upcoming family reunions.

An editorial in the Rodong Sinmun discussed the contents of the letter, which stresses the importance, for both sides of the peninsula, of the upcoming reunions of families separated by the Korean War for both countries.

The letter reportedly proposes “the south side to arrange the reunion of separated families and their relatives from the north and the south” in an effort to catalyze