Restaurant owner Kim Chae-hyeon lives just a few hundred miles from her older half-sister but they have never met, nor does she even know her name.

Ms Kim, 50, would love to meet her sibling and to check on her well-being, but like many other residents of the South Korean fishing town of Cheongho-dong she is blocked from seeing her family by a heavily militarised border with the North.

“I fear she may have passed away because she lives in the North and they are so poor there,” she said. “I have a strong desire to help her in any way that I can.”

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An easing of tensions between North and South Korea during the Winter Olympics has raised not only fresh prospects for peace but for many thousands also…

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