U.S. Congressman Mark Kirk will reportedly visit North Korea's U.N. Mission in New York next Monday to propose reunions for Korean Americans with their relatives in North Korea.

Representative Kirk co-chairs the bipartisan congressional commission on separated families.

Radio Free Asia reported on his planned visit while introducing Cardinal Nicholas Cheong Jin-suk's meeting on Thursday with U.S. lawmakers in Washington regarding family reunions.

The Republican congressman told Cardinal Cheong that over a thousand Korean family members are confirmed in the United States so far and that he believes at least two thousand are necessary for a successful reunion session.

Some 500-thousand Korean Americans are believed to have family in the communist state.

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