North, South Korea Restore Cross-Border Hotline With First Call In Months
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North Korea-South Korea: The restoration comes just days after North Korea sparked international concern with a series of missile tests in the span of a few weeks.
North and South Korea have restored their cross-border communication, with officials exchanging their first phone call Monday after dropping them in August.
The restoration comes just days after Pyongyang sparked international concern with a string of missile tests in the span of a few weeks, prompting the UN Security Council to hold an emergency meeting.
The two Koreas had signalled a surprise thaw in relations in late July by announcing the resumption of cross-border communications -- severed more than a year earlier -- but the detente was short-lived, as North Korea stopped answering calls just two weeks later.
Seoul's unification ministry confirmed officials from the two rivals exchanged their first phone call since August on Monday morning.
