North Korea has agreed to allow ten Korean Americans to exchange letters with their family members in the community regime, with whom they were separated since the Korean War. This pilot agreement will be carried out by the Red Cross, and may be followed by actual reunions in the future, reports the Korea Times.

While temporary reunions between North and South Korean families have been held in the past, similar reunions have never been organized for the thousands of South Koreans who had emigrated to the U.S. This new agreement is the latest attempt to improve relations between the U.S. and North Korea, and comes just after last week’s meeting in New York between North Korean Vice Foreign Minister Kim Kye-gwan and Stephen Bosworth, the U.S. special envoy on North Korea.

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