In its 2013 policy plan reported to President Park Geun-hye, the ministry said it will propose meetings between the two countries' Red Cross groups to hold reunions of families separated by the Korean War "at an appropriate time."
About 81,800 South Koreans are registered with the government as having parted from their families in the North following the 1950-53 Korean War. Since first holding reunion events in 2000, the two countries had held such events every year before suspending them under former hard-line President Lee Myung-bak.
