N.Korea rejects S.Korean call for talks on reunions
- Published: 18/02/2012 at 03:32 PM
- Online news: Asia
North Korea rejected the South's call for talks aimed at restarting reunions for families separated since the Korean War, saying Seoul should first respond to its conditions for dialogue.
This file photo shows elderly South Korean men who left behind relatives in the North, filling out applications for an inter-Korean family reunion programme at the Red Cross office in Seoul, in 2010. 80,000 people in the South alone are on the waiting list for reunions and thousands die every year before getting their chance.
South Korea's Red Cross Tuesday proposed the talks to discuss a resumption of the temporary reunions for family members separated since the 1950-1953 war.
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- Writer: AFP News agency
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