The Voice of America (VOA) reported Tuesday that two Korean Americans are visiting North Korea this week to meet the families of their siblings that had been separated by the Korean War.
 
The report said that two Americans from San Francisco, Bang Heung-gyu, 86, and Lee Geon-yong, 77, arrived in Pyongyang last Saturday. The two men will stay in Pyongyang for a week and meet with their families in the North for three days.
 
Bang, who left his hometown of Chongju, Pyongan Province, in 1946, is visiting the North to meet the children of his elder sister, who was confirmed to have died in 2011.
 
Lee is scheduled to meet the families of his elder brother, who died in 1992. He met his brother in Pyongyang in 1988, which was their first reunion since they were separated by the Korean War.
 
VOA said both Bang and Lee plan to request that the North Korean regime allow them to take their siblings’ family members, at least some of them, to the U.S.