The 16th reunion of separated families in North and South Korea will be held in the communist state from Wednesday.
A group of 97 North Koreans will meet from Wednesday to Friday at the North’s scenic Mount Geumgang resort some four-hundred of their South Korean kin whom they haven’t seen for over five decades. From Saturday, another group of 94 South Korean family members will reunite with some two-hundred of their North Korean relatives.
The first group will meet with their loved ones living on the other side of the inter-Korean border in a group meeting Wednesday, before attending a welcoming dinner.
On Thursday, the families will have private meetings over lunch.
The two Koreas had initially agreed to hold the reunions from on October first but pushed back the date due to the inter-Korean summit that was held from October second.
This week’s reunion will not include any family members of South Korean abductees or prisoners of war.
It will mark the first since 2000 for the two Koreas not to include such special cases. That was the year when the two Koreas agreed to include them with the regular separated family reunions.