Friday, April 20, 2018

North and South Korean Leaders Now Have A Hotline To Communicate To Each Other



The Guardian: Pyongyang calling: North and South Korean leaders get hotline as stage set for summit

Officials prepare for greeting on live TV between Kim Jong-un and Moon Jae-in, the first such event in more than a decade

A hotline between the leaders of North and South Korea went live on Friday, a week before they are due to hold a historic summit on the border that has separated their countries for more than six decades.

As preparations for the meeting gathered pace, South Korean media reported that the North’s leader, Kim Jong-un, and the South Korean president, Moon Jae-in, would talk over the phone before they meet next Friday.

The summit will take place on the southern side of the demilitarised zone, a heavily armed strip of land that that has divided the peninsula since hostilities in the Korean war ended in 1953.

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More News On North and South Korean Leaders Having A Hotline To Communicate To Each Other

North and South Korea set up hotline ahead of summit -- BBC
Koreas set up 1st hotline between leaders ahead of summit -- AP
Person to person: North and South Korea get neighbourly with direct hot line -- Reuters
North and South Korea open hotline between leaders: Seoul -- AFP
North and South Korea set up first hotline between leaders ahead of summit -- ABC News Online
Historic hotline links South, North Korean leaders ahead of rare summit -- FOX News
Direct hotline set up for North, South Korea presidents -- ABC News

2 comments:

fred said...

seldom known but in the initial peace talks, within N. K., the North guys sawed off the legs a bit on the Am seats so that the N.K. representatives would tower over the allied folks...that was one of the reasons the talks moved to a different location, not inside N.K. but rather on the dividing line between the two sides

Anonymous said...

Kim just needed the right motivation, another field inwhich to use his countries research capabilities.