Visit our new beta site!

Homecoming: family reunions spark hopes for a United Korea.

From: Current Events, a Weekly Reader publication  |  Date: 10/11/2002

MT. KUMGANG, North Korea -- Imagine never being able to see your mother, father, or brother again ... never being able to write them a letter or call them on the phone ... constantly wondering where they are, what they are doing, or if they are even alive.

That's how millions of North and South Korean families have lived for half a century following the Korean War (1950-1953). Recently, some of those family members have reunited with their long-lost relatives at a mountain resort ...

Browse by alphabet: