Some North Korean participants of inter-Korean family reunions promoted the socialist system of the North Korean regime during the reunions.
 
North Korean Park Mi-ok, wife of 64-year-old Chung Geon-mok, repeatedly told her South Korean mother-in-law Lee Bok-soon that the North Korean Workers’ Party appointed Chung a member of the party and does not discriminate against her husband although he is from South Korea.
 
Chung, a former South Korean fisherman, was abducted by the North in the Yellow Sea about 40 years ago. He reunited with his 88-year-old mother Lee.
 
Song Yong-theak from North Korea, a cousin of 88-year-old South Korean Song Chan-soo claimed that families remain separated for over 50 years because of the United States.
 
Some of the North Korean reporters and guides reacted sensitively to South Korean journalists’ reporting of the reunions.