Koreas restore hotline despite North's missile tests
The Hindu
The phone and fax channels — which the rival Koreas use to set up meetings, arrange border crossings and avoid accidental clashes — have been largely dormant for more than a year
North and South Korea restored a stalled communication hotline after weeks of a hiatus in a small, fragile reconciliation step on October 4, as the North pushes hard to win outside concessions with a mix of conciliatory gestures and missile tests.
Liaison officials from the two Koreas exchanged messages over a cross-border communication channel on the morning of October 4, Seoul’s Unification Ministry said.
The two Koreas are expected to restore other communication channels running across their tense border later on October 4 as they have both previously expressed their intentions to reopen them.
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