March 29, 2024
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N.Korea offers reunion between recent defectors and relatives

DPRK offers to hold meeting with defectors' family members at either Panmunjom or Seoul

Update: South Korea's Ministry of Unification have rejected the offer in a short statement released on Friday. "The group defection from North Korea was totally according to their free will. The family reunion that KCNA released is unacceptable," the MoU said.

North Korea has offered to send the families of a recent group of defectors to Panmunjom or Seoul in order for them to be reunited, according to an article published by state media on Thursday.

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