Urgent need for Koreans to reunite

In a decade, most survivors of the war will have died, expert says

GYODONG ISLAND, ROK - Retired farmer Hwang Rae-ha would love to see his mother again, but nearly 70 years after he last set eyes on her, he said he would settle for a photograph.

"Too much time has passed by, and it is over now," he said, standing near his home within sight of the border with the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. "I don't think she is alive."