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.

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

South Korea condemned North Korea’s demolition of a 12-story resort where families separated by the Korean War held brief reunions, calling the action “an act against humanity.”

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.

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.

The Mount Kumgang Reunion Center has been a place where separated families have gathered for some emotional scenes between relations who haven't seen each other for decades — and may never see again.