Summary Maurer is its first president to make a visit to both countries on the Korean peninsula in 21 years.
SEOUL (AP) The president of the International Committee of the Red Cross is visiting North Korea to discuss proposed reunions of families separated by the Korean War and other humanitarian issues.
Peter Maurer arrived in Pyongyang on Tuesday and was to go to South Korea on Friday to speak to officials there. The Red Cross says Maurer is its first president to make a visit to both countries on the Korean peninsula in 21 years.
Working-level talks have been proposed for Friday on holding a reunion next month of families still separated 60 years after the war. The South Korean president s proposal was widely seen as an attempt to further ease tensions that escalated earlier this year.
