The Koreas: Sixty years of conflict

Nearly 400 mostly elderly South Koreans, carrying gifts of warm clothes, cash and cosmetics, crossed into North Korea on Tuesday for a rare meeting with relatives they have either never met or last saw more than six decades ago. The reunion -- only the second in the past five years -- was organised as part of an agreement the two Koreas reached in August to ease tensions that had pushed them to the brink of armed conflict.VIDEOGRAPHIC