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      SKorea Proposes Loosening Restrictions on North-South Communication

   South Korean President Park Geun-hye is calling for families separated
   by the Korean War to be able to communicate via letters and video
   messaging.
   Ms. Park directed her cabinet Tuesday to initiate talks with North
   Korea on the matter. The comments come after the two Koreas last week
   held face-to-face family reunions for the first time since 2010.
   South Korea has proposed holding the meetings regularly. But the North,
   which often tries to use the meetings as a diplomatic bargaining chip,
   has not responded.
   Tens of thousands of South Koreans have signed up to participate in the
   reunions. Many are in their 70s and 80s, and are hoping to meet their
   relatives for the first time in decades. Last year, over 3,000 South
   Koreans died while on the waiting lists.
   Ms. Park said Tuesday that in order to accommodate all those who wish
   to participate, at least 6,000 people should be allowed to meet with
   relatives on the other side of the border every year.
   North and South Koreans are forbidden by their governments to
   correspond with one another. The two countries remain in a state of war
   following their 1950s conflict, which ended in a truce, not a peace
   treaty.
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