Red Cross officials from North and South Korea agreed Friday to hold reunions of families separated by the 1950-1953 Korean War in August.

The agreement on the reunions, which will be the first in three years, was reached at talks between three Red Cross officials from each side held at Mt. Kumgang in the North's southeast.

A total of 100 family members from each side will take part in the reunions, to be held Aug. 20-26 at a facility at the scenic mountain, South Korea's delegates to Friday's talks said in a statement.

The South Korean delegation was led by Park Kyung Seo, head of the Korean Red Cross. Pak Yong Il, vice chairman of the Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of the Country, headed the North Korean side.

If the reunion event is held in August as agreed upon, it would be the first since October 2015. Bilateral relations, which subsequently soured over the North's defiant pursuit of nuclear and missile programs, have been improving since the North decided to take part in the Winter Olympics hosted by South Korea.

It was at the April 27 summit between South Korean President Moon Jae In and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un that the two sides first agreed to hold the reunions on or around Aug. 15.

As part of Friday's agreement, the North and the South are to repair the reunion venue at Mt. Kumgang, with a team from the South visiting the location from June 27.

"The Red Cross of each Korea should trust each other to wipe out the past and write new history in a move to realize the Panmunjeom Declaration for our people and inter-Korean relationship," said North Korea's Pak at the end of talks, referring to the declaration issued following the April 27 summit.

"I feel grateful that the talks ended with success," the South's Park said in response.

Many Korean people remain separated from their relatives by the division of the Korean Peninsula since the Korean War that ended in an armistice, not a peace treaty.

There are more than 57,000 South Korean family members separated by the Korean War, with most surviving family members at an advanced age.