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North Korean Defectors Say Contacts In Dark About Kim Jong Un
Defectors from North Korea say many of their relatives and contacts were unaware of the international speculation over leader Kim Jong Un's health or were unwilling to discuss the issue in clandestine calls made from the South.
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Joy, Disbelief As Korean Families Separated By War Meet After 65 Years
About 90 families from North and South Korea wept and embraced on Monday as the neighbours held their first reunion events in three years for relatives wrenched apart by the Korean War for more than six decades.
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North Korea Defector Paid Smugglers To Get Family Out, Sent Back By China
This was Heo's world. She agreed to tell her story to The Washington Post, abandoning the normal cloak of anonymity used by defectors worried that speaking openly could endanger relatives back home.
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Relatives Protest Visit By North Korea General Blamed For Warship Sinking
Angry relatives of sailors killed in the 2010 sinking of a South Korean warship protested Saturday against the impending visit to the Winter Olympics of a North Korean general blamed for the attack.
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North Korean Defector Pleads To Return At UN Event
A North Korean defector interrupted a United Nations human rights press conference in Seoul on Thursday to plead tearfully to be allowed to go back to her relatives in Pyongyang.
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North Korean Girl With 7 Names Still Feels Hunted
The girl with seven names is finding it hard these days to contact relatives in Stalinist North Korea on the underground mobile phone link defectors have used for years.
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Therapy Offer for Those crushed by North-South Korea Reunion
The South Korean Red Cross said today it was offering therapy and counselling to hundreds of people who took part in a recent, emotionally fraught reunion with North Korean relatives they hadn't seen in 60 years.
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South Koreans Cross into North for Second Family Reunion
Some 250 mostly elderly South Koreans crossed into North Korea on Saturday for a second round of emotional meetings with relatives they have either never met or last saw more than six decades ago.
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South Koreans Cross Into North for Emotional Family Reunion
Several hundred mostly elderly South Koreans headed for North Korea on Tuesday for a rare, emotional meeting with relatives they have either never met or last saw more than six decades ago.
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Reunited Korean families hold tearful final farewell
The joy of being reunited for the first time in decades turned to grief for North and South Korean families Saturday as a rare cross-border visit ended, with participants unlikely to see their relatives again.
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Reunited Koreans given privacy to bridge 60-year divide
Around 80 elderly South Koreans met privately Friday with North Korean relatives they haven't seen for 60 years, on the second day of a highly-charged reunion for families divided by the Korean War.
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Bittersweet tears as divided Koreans meet after 60 years
Several hundred elderly South and North Korean relatives clung to each-other, rocking and weeping, as they met for the first time in 60 years on Thursday at a reunion for families divided by the Korean War.
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Reunion offers elderly Korean relief from decades of remorse
Deep-rooted feelings of guilt and regret have permeated Kim Se-Rin's long life, but he hopes to excise them this week at an emotional, all-too-brief reunion with relatives he left behind in North Korea.
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North Korean Defectors Say Contacts In Dark About Kim Jong Un
Defectors from North Korea say many of their relatives and contacts were unaware of the international speculation over leader Kim Jong Un's health or were unwilling to discuss the issue in clandestine calls made from the South.
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Joy, Disbelief As Korean Families Separated By War Meet After 65 Years
About 90 families from North and South Korea wept and embraced on Monday as the neighbours held their first reunion events in three years for relatives wrenched apart by the Korean War for more than six decades.
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North Korea Defector Paid Smugglers To Get Family Out, Sent Back By China
This was Heo's world. She agreed to tell her story to The Washington Post, abandoning the normal cloak of anonymity used by defectors worried that speaking openly could endanger relatives back home.
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Relatives Protest Visit By North Korea General Blamed For Warship Sinking
Angry relatives of sailors killed in the 2010 sinking of a South Korean warship protested Saturday against the impending visit to the Winter Olympics of a North Korean general blamed for the attack.
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North Korean Defector Pleads To Return At UN Event
A North Korean defector interrupted a United Nations human rights press conference in Seoul on Thursday to plead tearfully to be allowed to go back to her relatives in Pyongyang.
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North Korean Girl With 7 Names Still Feels Hunted
The girl with seven names is finding it hard these days to contact relatives in Stalinist North Korea on the underground mobile phone link defectors have used for years.
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Therapy Offer for Those crushed by North-South Korea Reunion
The South Korean Red Cross said today it was offering therapy and counselling to hundreds of people who took part in a recent, emotionally fraught reunion with North Korean relatives they hadn't seen in 60 years.
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South Koreans Cross into North for Second Family Reunion
Some 250 mostly elderly South Koreans crossed into North Korea on Saturday for a second round of emotional meetings with relatives they have either never met or last saw more than six decades ago.
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South Koreans Cross Into North for Emotional Family Reunion
Several hundred mostly elderly South Koreans headed for North Korea on Tuesday for a rare, emotional meeting with relatives they have either never met or last saw more than six decades ago.
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Reunited Korean families hold tearful final farewell
The joy of being reunited for the first time in decades turned to grief for North and South Korean families Saturday as a rare cross-border visit ended, with participants unlikely to see their relatives again.
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Reunited Koreans given privacy to bridge 60-year divide
Around 80 elderly South Koreans met privately Friday with North Korean relatives they haven't seen for 60 years, on the second day of a highly-charged reunion for families divided by the Korean War.
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Bittersweet tears as divided Koreans meet after 60 years
Several hundred elderly South and North Korean relatives clung to each-other, rocking and weeping, as they met for the first time in 60 years on Thursday at a reunion for families divided by the Korean War.
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Reunion offers elderly Korean relief from decades of remorse
Deep-rooted feelings of guilt and regret have permeated Kim Se-Rin's long life, but he hopes to excise them this week at an emotional, all-too-brief reunion with relatives he left behind in North Korea.
