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North Korea reopened a border hotline with South Korea yesterday restoring a channel of direct dialogue and signaling a possible thaw in relations between the two rivals after months of acrimony and fears of war.
The return of the telephone hotline at the village of Panmunjom came two days after North Korea’s leader, Kim Jong-un, made a rare overture to the South. The village falls in the Demilitarized Zone which is the world’s most heavily guarded border.
UN welcomes re-opening of hotline between North and South Korea
The United Nations has welcomed the re-opening of a hotline between North and South Korea. UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres voiced hope for more diplomatic initiatives to end the peninsula’s nuclear standoff.
UN spokesman Farhan Haq said, it is always a positive development to have a dialogue between Pyongyang and Seoul. He said, UN Security Council resolutions call for the de-nuclearisation of the Korean peninsula and Mr Guterres hopes that enhanced diplomatic initiatives will help to achieve that goal.