Separated families gather for rare reunion

Three hundred and ninety-four residents of the Republic of Korea, many of them elderly and nearly all in a state of fevered anticipation, gathered on Monday before crossing into the Democratic People's Republic of Korea for a rare reunion with separated family members.

Beginning on Tuesday in the DPRK resort of Mount Kumgang, it will be only the second such reunion in the past five years - the result of an agreement the two countries reached in August to de-escalate tensions that had pushed them to the brink of armed conflict.

Tens of millions of people were displaced during the 1950-53 Korean War.