Anchor: Around one-hundred South and North Korean families who were separated by the Korean War over 60 years ago will finally meet their siblings and relatives next month. For the first time in three years, the two Koreas reached the decision to restart family reunion programs, including face-to-face meetings in North Korea and online video conferencing for those too old to travel. Our Kim Bum-soo reports.  
 
Report: The two Koreas have agreed to hold an inter-Korean family reunion event for six days from September 25 at the Mount Geumgang resort in the North. 
 
Seoul's Unification Ministry Spokesman Kim Hyung-seok said at a news conference that the two sides reached the agreement during the Red Cross talks held at the truce village of Panmunjeom on Friday.
 
The two Koreas will exchange the list of one-hundred separated families from each side in mid September. The list is expected to include some South Korean prisoners of war.
 
Video conferencing events will also be held on October 22 and 23 for 40 people from each side.
 
The spokesman also said that the two sides saw eye to eye to hold another round of reunions in November. He said more working-level talks will be held to arrange the event.
 
The two Koreas also agreed to work together to make the reunions regular for those separated by the Korean War and allow them to exchange letters. 
 
In the South alone, more than 73-thousand people have their names on the government’s waiting list to see their families in the North through the reunions. Eighty percent of the applicants are older than 70. About half of them are over 80 as some 60 years have passed since being separated from their families.
 
The upcoming family reunions next month will be the first such events since 2010. More than 20-thousand families were reunited through the previous 18 rounds of reunions, but the program has been halted as cross-border relations soured following the North's shelling of Yeonpyeong Island in 2010.

Kim Bum-soo, KBS World Radio News.