North Korea Threatens to Cancel Family Reunions

North Korea is threatening to cancel its just-announced family reunions with the South if Seoul and Washington go ahead with upcoming joint military drills. The threat comes a day after Pyongyang and Seoul agreed to hold reunions later this month between families separated by the 1950s Korean War, in a rare sign of inter-Korean cooperation. On state television Thursday, the North's National Defense Commission was quoted as saying the war drills are incompatible with improved...

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