Lees son was just two-years-old when they parted.

has repeatedly been rejected for government-organized reunions.Its likely that Seoul keeps the backchannel programs low-key because of worries about angering North Korea.

The 86-year-old Kim is one of a dwindling number of elderly South Koreans who.often because South Koreans dont want to continuously financially support their relatives in the North.He said hes helped about 30 other South Koreans correspond with their relatives in North Korea or send them aid parcels.

and while hes desperate to see his siblings in the North before dying.Japan and elsewhere to try to find out whether their relatives in North Korea are still alive and to arrange exchanges of letters.

Shim said he spent three days with his brother in Yanji.

For three decades Kim has been sending his North Korean sister letters and aid.The area where the ship was found is now the oldest known ship trench in Scandinavia.

but the ship itself appeared to have been buried centuries later.Ship burials were used reserved for individuals.

with Gemini reporting that the bronze cauldron was said to have been melted down into shoe buckles.The discovery comes centuries after a seated skeleton and a sword were found at the same site.