Koreas agree to restore military hotline

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Above, South Korean Lieutenant Choi Don-Rim, left, communicates with a North Korean officer during this December 10, 2005 phone call at a military office near the Demilitarized Zone which separates North and South Korea. (AFP)

SEOUL: North and South Korea agreed Tuesday to restore a military hotline, an official said, less than a week after an civilian cross-border phone link was reopened.
The North said during the rivals’ first formal talks in more than two years that a link in the western part of the border had been put back into action, the South’s vice unification minister Chun Hae-Sung told reporters in Seoul.
“Accordingly, our side decided to start using the military telephone line, starting 8am tomorrow.”

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