DAY BREAK 06:00 War-separated South and North Koreans to meet for family reunion
ARIRANG NEWS 06:00 Coming up today,... the wait is over. The reunion event for war-separated families begins this morning at North Korea′s Mount Kumgang resort. We have a special report. The defense chiefs of South Korea and Japan are set to meet in Seoul. The officials will discuss military information sharing to deter threats from North Korea. Plus,... President Park Geun-hye carries out a Cabinet reshuffle. She replaces her land and oceans ministers and several vice ministers. Stay tuned for these stories and more. Hello.... to our viewers around the world, it′s 6 a.m. on Tuesday, October twentieth here in Seoul. Thanks for joining us,... I′m Mark Broome. Title: War-separated South and North Koreans to meet for family reunion We begin with the highly-anticipated inter-Korean family reunions. In what is sure to be an extremely emotional time,... war-separated families on the Korean peninsula will reunite for the first time in over 60 years later today. Our Kwon Soa is in Sokcho,... Gangwon-do Province,... where the South Korean family members are just a couple of hours away from crossing the border to Mount Kumgang in North Korea,... where the event will take place. Soa, good morning Morning, Mark The moment is approaching. It′s the moment war-separated families have been waiting for,... for more than six decades. I can imagine that many of the South Koreans that spent their night here at Hanwha Resort in Sokcho,.... could not sleep well,... due to the excitement and anticipation. This is the first reunion in almost two years,... and it′s only around 380 people from the South and 96 from the North that′ll meet during the first round of reunions until the 22nd of October,... and 188 from the North and 90 from the South between the 24th and 26th. I′m saying ′only′,... since the number of families torn apart and alive is around 66-thousand. Time is running out for these elderly people. And those who were lucky enough this time,... all had their own heartbreaking stories. Let′s take a look. "When the June 25th war broke out my sister and I were parted. I was 13 and she was 18. I made this pencil case for her. Other things I couldn′t bring for her... because they are too big and big things are not allowed." "We didn′t know,... because we lost contact,... Our brother in the North applied. Five of us are going to meet our oldest brother." Judging by previous reunions... we know just how emotionally charged these events can be. Of course... for the families involved but also for the country as a whole. Soa,... you reported on Monday about the families going through a kind of pre-session to get them prepared... what′s next on the schedule? Right now they are eating breakfast,.... the bus will take them to Goseong,... where they have to go through the Customs Immigration Quarantine office,... ...to head to the Mount Kumgang resort in the North. There they will have their first meeting altoget
