South Korea’s Lee urges North to consider resuming family reunions

Lee says N. Korea should consider humanitarian exchanges between ...

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 […]

South Korean President Lee urges North to consider resuming family reunions

The last family reunions between the two Koreas were hosted in August 2018. Read more at straitstimes.com.

South Korea's Lee urges North to consider resuming family reunions

SEOUL (Reuters) -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. Read full story

South Korea’s Lee urges North to consider resuming family reunions

By Heejin Kim SEOUL (Reuters) -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. At a meeting ahead of the national Chuseok thanksgiving holidays, Lee told South Koreans who had families in the North that he hoped for an easing of hostility and resumption of cooperation…