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North Korean Refugees Long For Family Behind Impenetrable Border

Telescopes are the only way refugees on South Korea's Gyodong Island can see the place they once called home (Credit: AFP)

After taking a bow and making an offering of fruit and a dried fish, Ryh Jae-hong tosses a cup of alcohol towards the thick barbed-wire fence that protects South Korea's Gyodong Island from North Korea.

South Koreans perform this funeral ritual during the autumn harvest festival Chuseok at altars erected along the border to honour ancestors who remained in the North.

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