North Korea Resumes Dialogue, Restores Hotline with South
Voice of America
SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA - North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has exchanged several letters since April with his South Korean counterpart Moon Jae-in, Seoul announced Tuesday, in a possible sign Pyongyang is ready to resume talks with the outside world. VIDEO: South Korean President Moon Jae-in has landed in Pyongyang. Moon & his wife Kim Jung-sook were greeted at the Sunan International Airport in Pyongyang by North Korean Leader Kim Jong Un and his wife, Ri Sol-ju, where the two leaders appeared to embrace warmly. pic.twitter.com/u57U132koS
As part of the exchange, the two men agreed to restore an inter-Korean hotline at the border village of Panmunjom, with a first phone call occurring at 10 a.m. Tuesday local time, South Korea’s presidential office said in a statement. The North’s official Korean Central News Agency confirmed the hotline restoration and letter exchange, calling the moves a “big stride in recovering the mutual trust and promoting reconciliation” between the two Koreas. “Now, the whole Korean nation desires to see the north-south relations recovered from setback and stagnation as early as possible,” the KCNA report said.
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