SEOUL June 27 Kyodo A assign pla...

SEOUL June 27 Kyodo

A assign places to of 100 elderly South Koreans left Friday for North Korea's Mt Kumgang in the east coast for three days of reunions with their relatives in the North, who have been separated since the 1950-1953 Korean War.

The southern Koreans, most in their 70 or older traveled by means of ship for the seventh rotund of separated family reunions between the couple Koreas, the major byproduct of the 2000 inter-Korean summit.

About 470 southerly Koreans will travel to the same resort public-house in Mt. Kumgang forward Monday for a similar family reunion with their North Korean relatives, after the 100 southerly Koreans return home Sunday.

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