North Korea is dismantling a facility at its Mount Kumgang resort used for hosting meetings between families separated after the Korean War, South Korea said on Thursday, in the latest sign of strained tensions between the two Koreas.

North Korea is demolishing a South Korea-built property that had been used to host reunions of families separated during the 1950-53 Korean War, the South’s government said Thursday, as it continues to eliminate symbols of engagement between the war-divided rivals.

Officials in South Korea revealed that Pyongyang is in the process of dismantling a facility used reunite families separated since the 1950-1953 Korean War.

For decades, the Mount Kumgang Reunion Center hosted tearful reunions of families separated by the 1950-53 Korean War. Pyongyang's unilateral demolition of the facility was an "inhumane act" that

SEOUL – South Korea on Thursday urged North Korea to immediately halt the demolition of facilities used for reunions of families separated by the 1950-53 Korean War, denouncing it as an “inhumane act” that crushes the long-held hopes of aging Koreans longing to be reunited with loved ones across the heavily fortified border.

Once a symbol of hope and the site of tearful reunions for families divided by the Korean War, North Korea is tearing down the Mount Kumgang resort’s reunion facility, South Korea said on Thursday.It is the latest sign of tensions between the two Koreas.

Seoul's Unification Ministry, which handles affairs between the two Koreas, issued a statement urging North Korea to immediately stop the action at the site near the border