Photo credit: REUTERS/Newsis
Another photo from today's Reuters top photos of the past 24 hours. The caption reads:
North Koreans bid farewell to their South Korean family members after their three day temporary family reunion at the Mount Kumgang resort in North Korea May 11, 2007. About 100 South Koreans are at a mountain resort in North Korea until Friday to reunite with their children, siblings and other relatives left behind in the 1950-1953 fratricidal conflict. (NORTH KOREA)
This breaks my heart.
I don't know how often the North Koreans have allowed families to reunite for a few days, but judging by the pain on these people's faces, it's not nearly often enough.
It's easy to think of North and South Korea in political or economic terms: Communism vs. Liberty, starvation vs. prosperity. But it's still a penninsula populated by too many families torn apart.
Governments, like that of Kim Jong-Il, that must use force to keep their people in do not deserve to stand.
1 comment:
I don't think east and west Germany did this when they were separated.
It seems to me to be a very cruel way to treat people. Is it better to see your loved ones, for only a little while, just to have them torn apart from you all over again? Very sad.
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