The South Korean Red Cross President Kim Sung-joo said she will discuss with North Korea’s Red Cross on ways to regularize family reunions of those separated by the Korean War.

Kim told reporters on Monday that according to a survey of 66-thousand South Korean people separated from their families in the North, addresses of 35 percent of them were unidentified, while 18 percent had no intent to participate in reunions.

She said that her agency thus confirmed the living status and intent for reunion of about 30-thousand people.

The Red Cross chief said that given that three thousand to four thousand separated families die every year, North Korea would agree on the need for regularizing family reunions.

Kim said that she will discuss with the North’s Red Cross on the possibility that the North will confirm the living status of the separated families in the North of 30-thousand South Koreans.