The June summit between Kim Dae Jung and Kim Jong Il gave millions of Koreans hope of reunification. "One day I got a call saying my brother was going into the [North Korean] army. I saw him at the train station... and I haven't seen him since". That was fifty years ago and Moon Byung Ho was a young boy. At 63 he meets his brother again after half a century of complete isolation. The most powerfully symbolic result of Korea's Cold War thaw, these recent reunions are a gift to a dying generation - and a tentative first step towards possible reunification. Over a million Koreans have been separated from their families since the Korean War. Now a lucky few have the chance to put faces to decade-long memories. Cash-strapped and isolated by its former communist allies, North Korea is under intense pressure, but the last Stalinist state is far from finished.

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