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PHOTOS: Separated North And South Koreans Meet For 1st Time In Decades

Tens of thousands of South Koreans have registered to meet with long-lost relatives in the North. For years the reunions were on pause, but now they have resumed, with scores of reunions this week.
Ham Sung-chan, 93, (right) of South Korea hugs his North Korean brother Ham Dong Chan, 79, during a family reunion meeting at the Mount Kumgang resort on the North's southeastern coast.

Cascades of tears. Lingering hugs. Family photos. And questions that have burned unanswered for decades.

For the first time in three years, North and South Korea are holding family reunions, allowing a small number of South Koreans to travel across the fortified border to the North to reunite with loved ones they haven't seen since the 1950s.

Such reunions have been held intermittently since the '80s and have resumed as relations between the North and South

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