Dozens of elderly and frail South Koreans met their Northern relatives Monday for the first time since the peninsula and their families were divided by war nearly seven decades ago.

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Dozens of elderly and frail South Koreans set off for the North Monday to meet relatives for the first time since the peninsula and their families were divided by war nearly seven decades ago.