South Korea's Lee urges North to consider resuming family reunions By Heejin KimOctober 3, 2025 at 7:16 AM 0 1 / 3FILE PHOTO: South Korean participants for a reunion arrive at the South's CIQ in 2015South Korean participants for a reunion arrive at the South's CIQ (Customs, Immigration and Quarantin...
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By Heejin KimOctober 3, 2025 at 7:16 AM
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1 / 3FILE PHOTO: South Korean participants for a reunion arrive at the South's CIQ in 2015South Korean participants for a reunion arrive at the South's CIQ (Customs, Immigration and Quarantine), just south of the DMZ in Goseong, South Korea, October 20, 2015. REUTERS/Kim Hong-Ji
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.
It is a political responsibility for the two Koreas to allow the split families to communicate with each other and exchange letters from a humanitarian perspective, Lee told the families during his visit to a border island with North Korea.
About 36,000 South Koreans separated from their families in the North have requested the government for reunions, according to South Korea's Unification Ministry.
The last family reunions between the two Koreas were hosted in August 2018, but have been halted amid frosty inter-Korean relations since.
In February, North Korea was seen dismantling a facility used for the family reunions, a signal of its strained ties with the South.
(Reporting by Heejin Kim; Editing by Clarence Fernandez and Lincoln Feast.)
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