SEOUL (REUTERS) - North Korea has said it is cutting communication hotlines with South Korea, a tactic the isolated country has used repeatedly during periods of rising tension.. Read more at straitstimes.com.
SEOUL - North Korea has said it is cutting communication hotlines with South Korea, a tactic the isolated country has used repeatedly during periods of rising tension.
Sometimes the lines fall into disuse when relations sour, as they have when multilateral talks stalled over North Korea's nuclear weapons programme and strict international sanctions imposed on it. South Korean officials have sometimes used a bullhorn to shout messages across the border at the Joint Security Area in Panmunjom, the only spot along the heavily fortified demilitarised zone where troops from both sides stand face to face.
A red phone is for incoming calls from North Korea and South Korea uses a green phone to make outgoing calls to the North. The spurt of inter-Korean talks that followed those January phone calls led to the opening of more hotlines, including - for the first time - a direct connection between the offices of South Korean President Moon Jae-in and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.
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