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Two koreas agree to more family
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RED Cross officials from North and South Korea agreed
yesterday to hold another round of reunions of family members
cut off since the 1950-53 Korean War and to search for people
missing in action from the war. About 100 people from the two
Koreas will be reunited with their long-lost family members in
the North’s Mount Kumgang resort between Sept. 13 and 18, the
Red Cross officials said in a joint statement after a
three-day meeting. There have been four such meetings since
August 2000, involving only several thousand people — a
fraction of the more than one million South Koreans with
immediate kin in impoverished North Korea. The joint statement
included an agreement to set up a regular meeting place for
the divided families in Mt Kumgang, an isolated enclave to
which the South has sent 470,000 tourists since November,
1999. “We will build a meeting place with cooperation from
both sides to expand such meetings,” it said. South Korea will
supply materials for the construction while North Korea will
provide the work force for it, it said. The officials agreed
to discuss setting up a second venue for such meetings on the
west side of the country after an inter-Korean railway, now
broken at the border, is rejoined. Red Cross officials will
have working-level talks in mid-October to discuss details of
the issue. They agreed to make further efforts to find the
separated families and to increase correspondence between
them. (SD-Agencies)
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