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North Korea Calls Off Reunion With South Korea

Eric Parra |
September 21, 2013 | 1:10 p.m. PDT

Executive Producer

The Korean Peninsula has been at odds with no immediate chance of unification (neontommy/creative commons)
The Korean Peninsula has been at odds with no immediate chance of unification (neontommy/creative commons)
It’s been three years since the last reunion of North and South Korea via the families that were separated through the Korean War some 60 years ago.

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While the two Koreas had been scheduled to amend this suspension this upcoming Wednesday, North Korea has decidedly called off the reunion on Saturday. 

The reasoning has been vague, at best, but accusations of a Seoul regimen against Pyongyang have been made (not for the first time, however) and North Korea has vowed to "take strong and decisive counteractions against the South Korean puppet regime's ever-escalating war provocations." 

All of this has come after an easing tension between the two split countries,  rekindling their feud in a familiar way.  North Korea had been gradually accepting peaceful terms and cooperation projects in a way to unite the two areas, all of which have been suspended until “a normal atmosphere for dialogue” returns.

The South Korea's Ministry of Unification has so far yet to comment on the situation.

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