Two Koreas restore military hotline | NK News – North Korea News
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North and South Korea on Friday restored a military hotline on the West of the peninsula, a statement released by South Korea’s Ministry of Unification said.
“The two Koreas agreed yesterday (Thursday) to restore the west coast military hotline from today (Friday),” Xinhua quoted a South Korean unification ministry spokesman as saying.
A successful test call was conducted at 10:51AM KST, officials said.
Severed at the height of inter-Korean tensions in March, the restoration of the military hotline was agreed as a step towards better coordinating travel between the two sides as they work towards reopening the shuttered Kaesong Industrial complex.
The line will be active 24 hours a day, allowing South Korean workers to safely remain at the Kaesong Complex for long periods of time, South Korea’s unification ministry explained.
