DNA test supports NK familys claim to inheritance in South

A DNA test supports claims by North Koreans that they are the children of a deceased father who left behind a sizable inheritance, court officials said Wednesday, a finding that may give them the legal right to the fortune in the South.

Four North Koreans filed a suit in February last year through a foreign relief group, insisting on their rights to the real estate valued at 10 billion won ($6.6 million) left behind by their late father who came to the South during the 1950-53 Korean War.

They said the father, identified only by his last name Yoon, had come to the South with one of their siblings, leaving his first wife and four children.

Yoon remarried in the South and had four more children.

The Seoul Family Court had requested Yonsei Severance Hospital to conduct a DNA test, and the result identified the four North Koreans as related with Yoon's children in the South by blood, court officials said.

The court will look into the test results and decide whether to accept the North Koreans' claim to the property, officials said.