Reunions of families divided by the Korean War will take place later this month at Mount Kumgang, North Korea, officials from the two Koreas announced after a meeting at Panmunjom on Wednesday morning.

The reunions will take place from February 20 to 25 in an agreement which chief North Korean delegate to the talks Pak Yong-Il called “a very important starting point for improving the North-South relations”.

The news comes amid concern that annual joint U.S.-South Korean Key Resolve and Foal Eagle military exercises could derail the latest agreement. North Korean Ambassador to Russia Kim Yong Jae on Tuesday described the exercisesas