North and South Korea Break 50-Year Silence.

The first North Korean plane to land in South Korea since 1950 arrived in August, carrying 100 families that hadn't seen their relatives in the South for 50 years. The visit was part of a process aimed at normalizing relations between the two countries, which technically have been at war since 1950.

President Kim Dae-Jung of South Korea and the North Korean leader, Kim Jong II, laid out the strategy in June during the first-ever series of talks between the countries' leaders. Both men hope ultimately to reunify the two countries and the 1.8 million people whose families were split up by the Korean War (1950-1953).

Five million people were killed in the...