Entry #5 - 5th February, 2014

Title: Koreas agree to family reunions in February
Date: 5th February, 2014
By: BBC


  South Koreans and their relatives in the North finally got a chance to reunite with their family since 2010. Millions of citizens have been split due to the Korean war in the 1950s. The countries have since then host reunions for the relatives on both sides. But this had proven hard as the South Korean and the North Korean government band all sorts of communications between the two sides, email, phone call everything was banned. A lot of times the relatives on one side don't even know that if their relative is alive or not, and also only a few hundred out of more than 72000 are chosen to go to this reunion so there is a high chance that they might not be even able to see their relatives, if they did go to this reunion activity. North Korean said that this is going to be a start on fixing the relationship with South Korea for the first time this year.

  Well i think this is absurd that they got to wait so long to meet their relatives. I think that the North Korean government should let their citizens go back to their relatives in the South. They have been separated because of the war, they are all mainly 70-80 year old men, why won't the North Korean government let them back to South Korea. As i have said they are all old men, when they live in North Korea they can't do anything but to sit there doing nothing and crying and being sad about their relatives in the south. Whereas if the North Korean let the old men back to South Korea then they could live the rest of their life in peace and they can finally be happy about living without strict laws in North Korea.