Around 3,500 South Koreans who registered for family reunions for those separated by the Korean War died in 2014, according to South Korean media citing the Ministry of Unification’s Integrated Information System for Separated Families.

Around 68,000 registered individuals from a total 129,000 who were registered to take part in the humanitarian exchanges are still alive.

North and South Korea last held reunions for separated families in February 2014, the first and only time since Kim Jong Un and South Korean President Park Geun-hye came to power. The program had been suspended since 2010.

Only a small number of individuals