The Korea National Red Cross said Thursday it would push to hold regular reunions of separated families and provide more humanitarian assistance to North Korea.

Under the so-called Action 110 plan drawn up to mark its 110th anniversary, the KNRC will propose to its counterpart in North Korea that both entities try to organize reunions of families separated by the 1950-53 Korean War on a regular basis.

To that end, the KNRC plans to carry out a survey to locate living North Korean relatives of about 68,000 South Korean separated families and launch a letter exchange program between those separated families.

In addition, the KNRC said, it would seek to organize a meeting of officials from Red Cross groups in the two Koreas, China, Japan and Mongolia as part of efforts to more actively provide assistance to Pyongyang.

The KNRC plan comes as Seoul proposed late last month that the two Koreas hold high-level talks to discuss pending issues, including reunions of separated families.

President Park Geun-hye also repeated the proposal in her New Year’s press conference, but the North has yet to respond to the overture.

The Red Crosses of South and North Korea usually arrange and host such reunions after both sides reach an agreement. (Yonhap)