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Met 60 long years after

AFP, Sokcho
Several hundred elderly South and North Korean relatives yesterday clung to each-other, rocking and weeping, and trading photos and faded memories as they met after 60 years at a reunion for families divided by the Korean War.
The emotional gathering at North FROM PAGE 20
Korea's Mount Kumgang resort was the result of tortuous, high-level negotiations between Pyongyang and Seoul, which had nearly broken down over the North's objections to overlapping South Korea-US military drills.
Television footage showed snow falling hard as 82 South Koreans - some so frail they had to be stretchered indoors - arrived at the resort in a convoy of buses to meet 180 North Korean relatives they have not seen for decades.
Inside the main hall, where numbered tables had been laid out, there were moving scenes as divided brothers, sisters, uncles, aunts, step-siblings and in-laws sought each other out and then collapsed into each others' arms.
One ofthe oldest South Koreans, a 93-year-old man who was separated from his pregnant wife during the 1950-53 conflict, met the now 64-year-old son he had never seen.
"So old," were his first words as they came face-to-face - the resemblance strikingly clear to people watching.
"Let me hug you," the father said and then, sobbing, they both embraced.
Nearly all the participants had brought photographs, either tattered, black and white images of the family before it was split up, or brand new colour snaps of their current families.
These were then passed around,
stroked and cried over.
Some of the reunions proved particularly traumatic, with one North Korean woman, Lee Jung-Sil desperately searching for recognition from her South Korean older sister, Lee Young-Sil, 87, an Alzheimers sufferer.
• Big sister. It's me! Why can't you hear me?" Jung-Sil entreated, tears streaming down her face.
The North Korean women wore traditional hanbok dresses, while the men were mostly dressed in dark suits. All seemed to be sporting badges of former leaders Kim Il-Sung and Kim Jong-Il - obligatory accessories in North Korea.
A grand dinner was planned for the evening and for today the reunited relatives were to be given the chance for more private gatherings in their guest rooms.
The reunion came just days after the publication of major UN report that amounted to a searing indictment of Pyongyang's rights record, detailing murder, enslavement, torture, imprisonment, rape and forced abortions.
Millions of Koreans were separated by the 1950-53 war, and the vast majority have since died without having any communication at all with surviving relatives.
The reunion programme began in earnest after a historic North-South summit in 2000.