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Posts tagged "family reunions"

Divided Families: The US Dimension

by | May 1st, 2012 | 07:00 am

The issue of divided families faces increasingly desperate demographics. Just do the math; a child who was 10 at the end of the Korean war is going on 70; a child who was 10 at the time of independence of the two Koreas in 1948 is going on 75. When we factor in declining life [...]

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North Appeals to South Korean NGOs

by | February 7th, 2011 | 03:30 pm

There are more and more signs of a coordinated North Korean push for food assistance. Among the most recent indicators are efforts to bypass the LMB government and appeal directly to South Korean NGOs. The Ministry of Unification denied a request in August from the Korea NGO Council for Cooperation with North Korea to undertake [...]

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