Inter-Korea
Families Hold Individual Reunions on 2nd Day
Written: 2006-03-21 14:51:15 / Updated: 0000-00-00 00:00:00
The second day of inter-Korean family reunions Tuesday saw individual meetings between South and North Korean family members at the North’s Mount Geumgang resort.
For the first time, the reunion included South Korean abductees and prisoners of war living in North Korea.
Abducted fisherman Cheon Mun-seok was reunited with his wife, who was left alone in South Korea following his kidnapping 37 years ago.
Meanwhile, protesting South Korean news correspondents' use of the phrases “abducted” and “seized,” the North blocked audio transmission of TV news reports covering the reunions.
Accordingly, KBS-TV, MBC-TV and SBS-TV were obliged to show footage of the reunions without sound, with reporters in Seoul adding their own comments to the silent video images.
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