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S.Korea's Red Cross Begins Search for NK Kin

Written: 2009-09-02 07:36:05Updated: 0000-00-00 00:00:00

S.Korea's Red Cross Begins Search for NK Kin

South Korea’s Red Cross is trying to locate South Koreans whose North Korean kin are hoping to meet at upcoming family reunions scheduled to take place in the North prior to the Chuseok holidays.

The Red Cross said Wednesday that it posted on its Web site a North Korean-provided list of 200 South Koreans who are being sought out by relatives in the North.

The Red Cross said most of the people on the North’s list are in their 70s or 80s and are not high-level or renowned figures.

Meanwhile, South Korea also sent a list of its own to the communist state. Around ten percent of the people on the list are prisoners of war or South Korean abductees.

For the next two weeks, the Red Cross societies of the two Koreas will confirm whether the people on the lists are dead or alive.

The Koreas will meet again on September 15th before drawing up a final list on September 17th.

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