The sixth round of inter-Korean Red Cross talks is opening at North Korea’s Mount Geumgang Tuesday, focusing on the return of South Korean prisoners of war and abductees.
The South’s four-member delegation departed for the scenic mountain resort earlier in the day.
During the three-day talks, Seoul will request the North to determine the whereabouts of the POWs and abductees and allow them to exchange letters or be reunited with their relatives in the South.
Seoul will also propose holding an additional family reunion via video link as well as allowing families who held video reunions with separated relatives on Liberation Day to exchange letters and gifts.
The North denies ever detaining POWs, but is believed to still hold around five-hundred-South Korean POWs and four-hundred-80 South Koreans abducted to the North after the Korean War.
The Red Cross talks come 21 months after the last round of discussions in November 2002.