DPRK reports on north-south family reunions

PYONGYANG, Sept. 28 (Xinhua) -- The official KCNA news agency reported on Monday the reunions of families separated by the 1950-53 Korean War which began on Saturday at the Mt. Kumgang Resort of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK).

South Korean visitors in a bus cry as they hold the hands of their relatives of DPRK before returning to South Korea after their reunion on the Diamond  Mountain in DPRK, Monday, Sept. 28, 2009. (Xinhua/Reuters Photo)

The report said the separated families held "group reunions" on Saturday and the Central Committee of the DPRK Red Cross Society gave a reception for the separated families and relatives from the north and the south on the same day.

The separated families reunited separately on Sunday and "exchanged their pent-up inmost thoughts," the report added.