For the first time in more than five decades since the division of the Korean Peninsula, a group of South Koreans has been allowed to visit the graves of their ancestors buried in North Korea's main national cemetery.

The group comprising descendants of the independence fighters who set up an interim Korean government in China during the Japanese occupation of Korea was given permission to visit the graveyard in Pyongyang Sunday on the occasion of the Chuseok holiday.

The graveyard is dedicated to some one-hundred independence fighters who helped the North's founder Kim Il-sung during Japan’s colonization of the Korean Peninsula in the early 1900s.