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Separated Families Bid Farewell As Video Reunions End

Written: 2007-03-29 20:43:36Updated: 0000-00-00 00:00:00

Separated Families Bid Farewell As Video Reunions End

Hundreds of North and South Korean members of separated families bid farewell to each other Thursday as they wrapped up tearful reunions via video link across the inter-Korean border.

On the third and last day of reunions, 19 South Korean families met 21 families from the North through live video teleconferences between Seoul, Pyongyang and other regional cities.

The reunions, the fifth in a series arranged chiefly for the elderly, saw a total of 819 members of 60 families from each of the two Koreas reunited after being separated for more than 50 years.

The video reunions resumed this week for the first time in 13 months, having been delayed since Pyongyang test-fired ballistic missiles last July.

The Red Cross organizations of the two Koreas will hold another face-to-face family reunion in mid-May at the North’s scenic Mount Geumgang resort for the first time in eleven months.

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