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Families divided during the Korean War tearfully reunited for the first time on Monday after South Korean President Moon Jae-in and North Korean President Kim Jong Un signed a declaration earlier this year to facilitate such meetings.

A group of 89 people, mostly elderly, were chosen, CNN reported , to travel from South Korea to North Korea and see relatives many hadnt even been in contact with since the armistice was signed in 1953.

One woman, Lee Keum-seom, told CNN that she was seeing her son for the first time since he was 4 years old. They are now 92 and 72 years old, respectively.

(My family) in North Korea didnt live long so I prayed for my sons health, she said. What shall I ask? Oh, I should ask him what his father told him about me. His father must have told him about how we got separated and where our house used to be.

At 101 years old, Baik Seong-gu will finally meet his granddaughter, almost 70 years after being separated from his children during the Korean War. There are 88 other South Koreans like him that will cross over to the North tomorrow to reunite with their loved ones pic.twitter.com/7rF0H5HWVi

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At 101 years old, Baik Seong-gu will finally meet his granddaughter, almost 70 years after being separated from his children during the Korean War. There are 88 other South Koreans like him that will cross over to the North tomorrow to reunite with their loved ones pic.twitter.com/7rF0H5HWVi
Joseph Kim (@josungkim) August 19, 2018

Yonhap described a tearful scene , as long-lost family members hugged and asked each other rudimentary questions about each others lives. Lee, for example, asked her son how many children he had.

The reunification event will go until Wednesday, Yonhap said, giving families a total of 11 hours together by the end. More than 300 South Koreans will also travel north this coming weekend for a second round of reunions.

Tens of thousands of Koreans have reunited since the early 2000s, but Mondays meet and greet was the first of its kind since 2015, after which tensions increased between the countries and reunifications were halted.

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