Her is an unusual story involing a Romanian woman waiting for decades to be reunited with her North Korean husband:

Georgeta Mircioiu, a 72-year old living in the Romanian capital Bucharest, received a letter from the North Korean Embassy there on June 7 informing her of the death of her husband in South Hamgyong Province, North Korea, on Aug. 13, 2004. She had not seen Cho Jeong-ho since 1962.

In a telephone interview with the Chosun Ilbo, Mircioiu said, “I pleaded with the North Korean Embassy to let him come to Romania whenever important occasions arose, such as the university entrance and marriage of our 49-year-old daughter Miran. Every time I contacted them, the embassy officials always told me he was dead without checking the facts. And now, they suddenly send me this letter and tell me he died in 2004? I do not believe this, I cannot believe this.”

Cho and Mircioiu met in 1952, when the Korean War was winding down. Cho came to Bucharest in charge of educating 3,000 North Korean war orphans overseas. Mircioiu was assigned to a school for North Korean orphans as an arts teacher, and that is where they met.

The two married in Romania with the permission from the Communist Party in both countries in April 1957, and went to Pyongyang the next year. Two years later, Miran was born. But Miran suffered from malnutrition as the North Korean government ceased to distribute food to foreigners, and Mircioiu went to Bucharest to give Miran medical care. She tried to return to North Korea as soon as the treatment was finished, but the North Korean Embassy refused her a visa on the grounds that Cho had gone missing or died.   [Chosun Ilbo]

Considering the North Koreans racist views towards mixed racist marriages it is amazing they were allowed to marry in the first place and totally unsurprising that her husband was eventually banned from contacting her and his daughter.