The ICRC, in cooperation with the Red Cross Society and the Armed Forces' Military Medical Bureau of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea has opened a new physical rehabilitation centre in Pyongyang for both military and civilian patients.

Geneva/Beijing (ICRC) – The president of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), Jakob Kellenberger, held talks in Beijing today with Chinese president Hu Jintao.

Geneva (ICRC) – To mark the upcoming 50th anniversary of the cease-fire agreement, the Vice President of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) received representatives of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea and the Republic of Korea in Geneva yesterday and expressed his deep concern for the plight of the families still separated as a result of the Korean war.

The ICRC launched an amputee rehabilitation programme in North Korea. In Songrim, some 30 kilometres south of the capital Pyongyang, a building that houses a new prosthetic centre was inaugurated at a ceremony on 16 July following a three-month renovation.