Koreas hold tearful reunions

Published November 7, 2005

SEOUL, Nov 6: A South Korean woman has had a tearful meeting with her North Korean sister more than half a century after giving her up for dead, in the latest series of reunions across the world’s last Cold War frontier.

Her family believed Gong Myeong-Hee, now a 71-year-old North Korean, had been killed after she was drafted by the North’s communist army during the 1950-1953 war.

The family accepted her death when shattered pieces of her hand mirror and a comb were sent home with messages apparently confirming she had been killed by US bombing at the age of 15.—AFP

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