Red Cross officials of South Korea and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) on Friday agreed to hold two additional rounds of reunions for separated families via video link as well as one extra round of face-to-face reunions apart from the planned ones this year, South Korea's Yonhap News Agency reported.

The agreement was reached after a four-day negotiation between the two sides in DPRK's Mount Geumgang resort.

Under the agreement, the two sides will exchange video messages on CDs for 20 chosen families who had already been reunited with their families living on the other side of the border between

South Korea and DPRK.

According to a joint statement adopted by the two sides, South Korea and the DPRK will hold two rounds of family reunions via video link on Aug. 15 and Chuseok, or Moon Festival, in September respectively. The size will be 40 families from each side.

The two sides also agreed to hold the 16th face-to-face family reunion on Chuseok. The size will be 100 people from each side. The two sides will cooperate and address the fate and whereabouts of those who went missing during or after the Korean War as part of the separated family issue. the statement said.

South Korea and DPRK will promote cooperative projects on the humanitarian sector and continue to step up efforts to modernize the Red Cross general hospital in Pyongyang, it said.

The ninth meeting of Red Cross officials will be held at the Mount Geumgang resort in late October, according to the statement.

An estimated more than 90,000 people from South Korea alone have remained separated from their families since the 1950-53 Korean War, the South Korea's Yonhap News Agency said.

There are no mail or telephone services available to civilians between South Korea and DPRK.

Since the historic inter-Korean summit in June 2000, 14 rounds of face-to-face reunions for about 13,000 separated family members have been held.