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Updated 14 Aug 00, 10:31 PM EDT 15 Aug 00, 10:31 AM HKT

North and South Korea prepare for first family reunions since 1985

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Frail husbands and wives meeting for the first time in more than 50 years. Sons and daughters greeting parents lost across a militarized border. Separated in childhood, brothers and sisters, now elderly, embracing yet again.

A group of 100 separated family members from North Korea arrived in South Korea Tuesday for temporary reunions with relatives they have not seen for half a century.

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