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The two Koreas have wrapped up their two rounds of reunions for war-separated families on
this Tuesday at North Korea's Mount Kumgang. Nearly 5-hundred divided family members said
their final, tearful farewells earlier this morning, and some 3-hundred-50 South Korean
participants will return to the South at around 5 p.m, Korea time.
The six-day reunion event was the first in more than three years.
In the first round, 82 South Koreans who applied for the event reunited with their families
in the North, while 88 North Koreans met with their South Korean family members in the next
round. The South's Defense Ministry, meanwhile, says
a North Korean military patrol ship cross the maritime border in the West Sea three
times between just before 11 p.m. Monday night and 3 a.m. Tuesday morning.