- Seoul and Pyongyang have held 21 rounds of family reunions since 2000 ISTANBUL   South Korea’s President Lee Jae Myung Friday called on Pyongyang to resume contacts between divided Korean families, separated since the war in 1950s. "It is the responsibility of the political circles in both South and North to let the separated families confirm whether their relatives are alive and, at the very least, exchange letters," Lee said as Koreans mark first day of Chuseok holidays. Lee made the