Kim Byung-ki has just seen his sister for the first time in 59 years, a sibling he thought was dead until last year. They reunited over the weekend for the first time since the Korean War tore apart their family.
Kim, his sister and Kim's son started crying immediately on seeing one another, said Kim's son, Kim Jong-hwa. They couldn't stop.
The family took part in family reunions that began October 30 and will end Friday at Mount Kumgang, the two Koreas' joint mountain resort in the North.
Many burst into tears at the reunions, which involve 100 people from each side. Elderly men in suits and women in traditional Korean silk hanbok dresses sat at numbered tables in a large restaurant. Some sat, spoke and exchanged photographs; others simply looked bewildered as they clutched hands and stared into faces unseen for six decades. The relatives have been separated from since the 1950-53 Korean War.
Read More:http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/asiapcf/11/02/skorea.nkorea.reunions/index.html?hpt=Mid
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