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North Korea reconnects inter-Korean hot line

This file photo, taken on August 10, 2005, shows a South Korean lieutenant communicating with a North Korean officer during a phone call at a military office near the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ), in Paju, north of Seoul, as the two countries tested a hotline aimed at helping avoid naval confrontations in the Yellow Sea. (By AFP)

Frank Smith
Press TV, Seoul

North Korea has reopened a long suspended hotline with South Korea at the shared border village of Panmunjom. The move comes as Pyongyang has accepted Seoul’s offer of talks regarding the North Korean participation in the upcoming Winter Olympic Games in the South. But the prospect of negotiations was viewed dim by the US which seeks to continue sanction and pressure campaign to force Pyongyang give up its nuclear and missile programs.


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