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Separated for 60 years due to Korean war

juli 25, 2013by 0

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Hong Jong Soon gazes out her window for hours each day, past a small garden where sesame and red peppers grow, past an iron gate and low wall, hoping to witness the return of a man she hasn’t seen or talked to in 63 years. Her husband disappeared after being conscripted into the South Korean army in 1950, taken, she believes, to North Korea during the chaos of the Korean War, which ended 60 years ago Saturday. Hong, who never remarried, lives in the same place they shared as newlyweds, because she doesn’t want him to get lost when he comes home. “I won’t have any regrets if I can see him before I die, even if it’s only just once,” the 88-year-old woman said in a faint voice during an…

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