SOKCHO, South Korea: A group of 82 elderly, frail South Koreans, two of them in ambulances, left for the North Korean border Thursday to attend the first reunion in more than three years for families divided by the Korean War.
Ten coaches, with half a dozen police vehicles as escorts, left the eastern port city of Sokcho at 8:30am (2330 GMT Wednesday) for the heavily-militarised border 50 kilometres (30 miles) away.
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