Video reunions of South and North Korean families separated decades ago continued for a second day on Wednesday through a link between several South Korean cities and the North Korean capital of Pyongyang.

On Day Two of the fifth round of video reunions at Seoul's Red Cross headquarters, Kim Dong-chan, 92, had a chance to see his three sons across the border, while another 92-year-old, Kim Bu-yong, saw her grandchildren’s faces for the first time.

In the southwestern city of Gwangju, 96-year-old Ahn Geun-mun was reunited with his two daughters.

Wednesday's video reunions brought 40 families together via video.

When the three-day reunion ends Thursday, a total of 60 families from the South will have had a chance to chat over the video link with their long-lost loved ones in the North.

The reunions were suspended for more than 13 months due to strained inter-Korean relations that worsened after the North's missile testing last July.

A total of 18-hundred-76 Koreans from 279 families, many of them elderly, have been brought together since the video reunions began in August 2005.