Two Koreas start talks on reunions of separated families.

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SEOUL, August 26 (Itar-Tass) - South Korea and North Korea begin on
Wednesday the talks to arrange a new round of reunions of families
separated by the 1950-1953 Korean War, Unification Ministry spokesman Chun
Hae-sung said.

The talks are expected to start at the North's Mount Kumgang resort.
This will be the first dialogue after a nearly two-year break
following an agreement North Korean leader Kim Jong-il reached with Hyun
Jeong-eun, chief of South Korea's Hyundai Group, to resume suspended
reunions of separated families.
The reunions were arranged by the Red Cross and began in August 2000.
They were last held in October 2007 and did not continue after political
relations chilled, the Yonhap news agency reported.
The two Koreas have held 16 rounds of face-to-face reunions and seven
rounds of video reunions, temporarily bringing together tens of thousands
of separated family members.

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