Every so often, 80-year-old Chahee Lee Stanfield goes down a list of names and crosses out those who died before they could see their family members in North Korea again. 

Like all the others, she’s not sure how much longer she’ll be able to wait. 

Stanfield is the executive director of the National Coalition on the Divided Families (NCDF), and she spends her twilight years keeping track of U.S. residents or citizens who were separated from relatives more than 70 years ago. According to her organization, roughly 100,000 people are like her — waiting for an opportunity that may never