US EditionSouth Korea's Lee Calls for North to Consider Separated Family Reunions
President Lee called for resuming Korean War family reunions to ease tensions and enable 36,000 South Koreans to reconnect with relatives in the North, officials said.
- South Korean President Lee Jae Myung called for North Korea to allow families separated by the Korean War to hold reunions or exchange letters.
- Over 134,000 South Koreans have registered for family reunions since 1988, but only 35,311 were still alive as of August, according to South Korea's Unification Ministry.
- Lee urged North Korea to consider the circumstances of separated families from a humanitarian perspective and reunite them, at least through letter exchanges.
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South Korea's Lee urges North to consider resuming family reunions
North Korea should consider resuming reunions of families separated during the Korean War of 1950 to 1953, as part of humanitarian cooperation measures between the neighbours, South Korean President Lee Jae Myung said on Friday.
South Korea's Lee Urges North to Consider Resuming Family Reunions
North Korea should consider resuming reunions of families separated during the Korean War of 1950 to 1953, as part of humanitarian cooperation measures between the neighbours, South Korean President Lee Jae Myung said on Friday.
Humanity Over Hostility: Seoul Seeks Family Reunions With the North
South Korean President Lee Jae-myung on Friday urged North Korea to consider restarting reunions for families divided by the 1950-53 Korean War. Speaking ahead of the Chuseok thanksgiving holidays, Lee said he hoped for reduced tensions and fresh humanitarian cooperation between the two Koreas.Millions of Koreans were separated when the peninsula was divided at the […] The post Humanity Over Hostility: Seoul Seeks Family Reunions With the North …
Lee Jae-myung calls for North Korea to allow contact between separated families
South Korean President Lee Jae-myung met with citizens displaced from their hometowns in North Korea by the peninsula’s decades-long division on Friday, expressing hope that improvements in inter-Korean ties will allow separated families to reconnect. The meeting took place at the Ganghwa Peace Observatory on the inter-Korean border ahead of the fall harvest holiday of […]
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