Meet America's secret tactic to prevent war with North Korea: a pink touch-tone phone in the DMZ
PANMUNJOM, Korean Demilitarized Zone—Every weekday for five years, U.S. military officer Daniel McShane waited patiently for North Korean soldiers to return his calls. When they finally did, his team struggled to find the right phone. They had never heard it ring before.
Now, Lt. Cmdr. McShane or another member of a United Nations Command team staffed mostly by the U.S. military, speaks twice a day with North Korean counterparts 125 feet away on the other side of the Demilitarized Zone. The phone link reopened in July for...
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