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Unification Minister Kim Yung-ho has vowed to make the difficulty of separated households his highest precedence, saying it’s the most pressing subject that each South and North Korea have to cope with.
The minister made the pledge Wednesday throughout a joint ancestral service for the Lunar New 12 months organized by members of war-torn households at Imjingak within the border metropolis of Paju, Gyeonggi Province.
Discussing the plight of South Koreans from households divided by the Korean Conflict, Kim stated their common age is 83 and about three-thousand die yearly with out having had an opportunity to reunite with family members within the North.
Noting that South Korea proposed an inter-Korean consultative physique to debate the difficulty on Liberation Day in August, the minister strongly urged North Korean authorities to undertake a extra accountable angle to cope with the difficulty earlier than it’s too late.
The minister added that this yr is a significant one, because it marks the eightieth anniversary of Korea’s liberation from Japan, and that the ministry plans to take the event as a possibility to console the ache of division and open the trail for reunification.
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