Hundreds of family members reunited

By Pan Mengqi | China Daily | Updated: 2018-08-21 10:01
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Meeting is first in three years as Seoul-Pyongyang relations thaw

Divided family members meet during a reunion at DPRK's Mount Kumgang resort on Monday. YONHAP VIA REUTERS

Hundreds of family members torn apart by the 1950-53 Korean War met their relatives for the first time in more than six decades in a tearful, long-dreamed-of family reunion on Monday.

The three-day reunion is the first for three years and followed a diplomatic thaw on the peninsula.

Eighty-nine people from the Republic of Korea, mostly in their 70s and older, met about 180 long-separated relatives living in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, at Mount Kumgang, a scenic resort on the DPRK's east coast.

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