S-N Family Reunions Held at Mt. Geumgang

Ninety-seven South Koreans had their first reunions in six decades with their 228 North Koreans families separated during and around the 1950-1953 Korean War.

Their reunions were held at Mt. Geumgang in the North, a tourist site that is being operated by South Korea's Hyundai Group in an exclusive contract with Pyongyang. All reunions were emotional but those involving two kidnapped South Koreans and a South Korean prisoner of war drew particular attention.

The POW was identified as the 79-year-old Lee Qae-seok, who has lived in the North since he was taken prisoner during the Korean War. Lee met his two younger brothers.

No Seong-ho and Jin Yong-ho, two of the sailors on board Dongju fishing boat kidnapped by the North in 1987, met their families. The family reunions were the first in two years.