Red Cross talks between the two Koreas are set to take place from 10 a.m. Friday at Mount Geumgang in North Korea. 

The two sides will discuss a set of humanitarian issues, including holding a reunion of families separated by the Korean War around Independence Day on August 15th. 

The Unification Ministry in Seoul said North Korea sent the names of its three-member delegation for the talks at around 2 a.m. Friday, just eight hours before the meeting was scheduled to begin. The delegation will be headed by Pak Yong-il, vice chairman of the Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of the Country. 

The South Korean delegation, headed by President of the Korean Red Cross Park Kyung-seo, crossed the eastern land border early Friday. 

In the past 30 years, some 130-thousand people registered to meet their brethren in the North. Of those, 57-thousand are still living, 86 percent of whom are over the age of 70.

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