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Watch: Koreans bid family members farewell after brief reunion

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Watch: Many of the elderly family members were in wheelchairs and struggled to remember their next of kin that they had not seen in over six decades.
Koreans bid their family members farewell after a brief reunion Wednesday.
The three-day reunification began on August 20 and took place at Mount Kumgang resort in North Korea in what was the first reunification event in three years.
A heavily fortified border was built between the divided peninsula following the 1953 armistice, leaving families divided ever since.
Many of the elderly family members were in wheelchairs and struggled to remember their next of kin that they had not seen in over six decades.
Around 90 families were briefly reunited with 330 South Koreans and 185 North Koreans attending to see their loved ones.
Of the 57,000 separated family members, 41.

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