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WORLD NEWS Saturday 25 auguSt 2018

2 typhoons weaken after pounding South Korea and Japan

Associated Press ately available on wheth- No major damages have
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) er anyone had been in- been reported in Seoul and
— A weakening typhoon jured. The North's capital of the surrounding metropoli-
brushed by metropolitan Pyongyang, which is also its tan area, where about half
Seoul Friday after battering biggest city, received only of the country's 50 million
southern South Korea with a relatively mild rainfall Fri- people live.
heavy rain and high winds, day. The Japan Meteorologi-
leaving one person missing South Korea's government cal Agency said Cimarron,
and a slew of damaged said a man in his 30s was now a tropical storm, was
buildings, canceled flights injured and a 23-year-old back at sea and heading
and power outages. woman was missing after for northern Japan after
Japan's weather agency she was apparently swept bringing heavy rain and
downgraded a sepa- away in southern Jeju is- high winds to the port city
rate storm from typhoon A windmill tumbles down at Hokudan Earthquake Memorial land Wednesday night. A of Kobe and elsewhere in
strength after it crossed a Park after Typhoon Cimarron hit Awaji, Hyogo prefecture, west- 16-year-old boy was injured western Japan overnight.
swath of the western part ern Japan, Friday, Aug. 24, 2018. in Goheung, a southern The agency said Cimar-
of the country overnight. Associated Press mainland county, after a ron was moving north with
South Korea's weather wall collapsed on Thursday. maximum sustained winds
agency said Yyphoon Sou- rain and winds before exit- neighboring Munchon, About 22,000 power out- of 90 kilometers (56 miles)
lik's force has diminished ing the peninsula in the af- which were lashed by 33.8 ages were reported at per hour with gusts to 126
as it moved northeast but ternoon. centimeters (13 inches) homes, buildings and farms kph (78 mph). It was fore-
was still expected to pound North Korea reported and 62.5 centimeters (24.5 in the southern regions and cast to reach the northern
the country's mountainous heavy rain in its east coast inches) of rain respectively. more than 700 flights were island of Hokkaido on Fri-
eastern region with strong city of Wonsan and in No details were immedi- canceled on Thursday. day night.q

Koreas begin second round of tearful family reunions

By HYUNG-JIN KIM al hanbok dress, sobbed but none has been given a
Associated Press while touching the face of second chance to meet.
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) her 100-year-old sister from The previous family reunions
— Elderly North and South South Korea. "I cannot be- were in 2015.
Koreans wept and em- lieve this," Kang said. The separated families are
braced each other on Fri- Two silver-haired brothers a bitter reminder of the di-
day at the beginning of a in their 80s also wept while vision of the Koreas, which
second round of temporary surrounded by other rela- were once a single coun-
reunions of family members tives, while others asked try. The Korean Peninsula
separated for decades by each other about their lives remains in a technical state
the Korean War. in a rush of emotions. of war because the 1950-
More than 300 South Kore- "Thank you for being alive," 53 Korean War ended with
ans traveled to the North's Wu Ki-ju, a 79-year-old an armistice, not a peace
Diamond Mountain resort South Korean woman, said treaty.
on Friday for three days of after seeing her 86-year- South Korea wants to ex-
meetings with their long-lost old North Korean sister in a pand the family reunions, South Korean Kang Jong-ok, 100, hugs her North Korean sister
Kang Jong Hwa, 85, during Separated Family Reunion Meet-
relatives. Earlier this week, wheelchair. but experts say North Ko- ing at Diamond Mountain resort in North Korea, Friday, Aug. 24,
about 200 other South Ko- Participants in the latest rea is reluctant to do so 2018.
reans went to the scenic re- reunions are to part again because of worries that Associated Press
sort for similar reunions. on Sunday, likely for good. increasing their frequency
During Friday's meet- The two Koreas occasion- will loosen its authoritarian with the South. at improving ties amid dip-
ings, Kang Jong Hwa, an ally allow elderly people to control and cause it to re- This week's reunions were lomatic efforts to end the
85-year-old North Korean reunite with loved ones on linquish a coveted bargain- arranged as the rival Kore- stalemate over North Ko-
woman wearing a tradition- the other side of the border, ing chip in negotiations as take various steps aimed rea's nuclear program.q