Dozens of families from North and
South Korea have held emotional reunions as relatives met for the first
time in at least 65 years.
A group of mostly elderly South Koreans
travelled to a tourist resort in the North for the event, the first
such reunion for three years.The Korean War of 1950-1953 left the peninsula divided and people on the northern side were unable to leave.
The South Koreans were chosen by lottery - the oldest of them is 101.
These brief meetings are likely to be the last and only time many will see each other.
Eighty-six-year-old Cho Hye-do and her brother Cho Do-jae, 75, were reunited with their older sister Cho Sun-do, who is 89 and lives in North Korea.
"I remember how beautiful you were," Cho Hye-do told her big sister.
"I finally get to meet you after living for so long," replied the older woman.
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