Members of separated Korean families part ways -- again

The man that appears in the early portion of the clip is Ko Pae-il, a Korean-American who was reunited with his 81-year-old father from North Korea during the three-day family reunions that took place at Mt. Kumgang. Watching and recording the scene, I felt this was total nonsense -- family members living only several hours away from each other but unable to be reunited for 60 years. Ko was separated from his father when he was 3. He wished he could take his old man to the U.S. and live together. His father, drafted into the N. Korean army during the war, just kept sobbing. So many stories of separaing and longing, yet so little time to tell them. "I told my father I would never let him go when I meet him again in Heaven," Ko told me, weeping in his room.

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