Lee Young-sil, 87, right, (click here) and her sister Ri Jeong-sil, 84, now living in North Korea, shed tears as they met each other during inter-Korean family reunions held at the Geumgangsan Hotel in North Korea, Thursday./ Yonhap

By Kim Kwang-tae
Joint Press Corps

MOUNT KUMGANG, North Korea, Feb. 20 (Yonhap) -- Kang Neung-hwan, (click here) a 93-year-old South Korean, wept and hugged his son from North Korea on Thursday as they reunited at a North Korean mountain resort along with dozens of other families, in an emotional event that underscored the painful separation of people after the Korean War.

Kang did not knew that his wife -- with whom he had been married for less than four months -- was pregnant when he fled to South Korea during the chaotic days of the 1950-1953 war. The war ended in a cease-fire, not a peace treaty, keeping ordinary people from the rival Koreas from contacting each other for decades....