Original title: Global Connection | Selected to “reconnect” 13 months after the “disconnection” between North Korea and South Korea on this day
South Korea and North Korea respectively announced on July 27 that the two sides decided to resume the communication line between the North and the South that had been interrupted for 13 months starting at 10 a.m. that day.
It is worth mentioning that July 27 this year is the 68th anniversary of the signing of the “Korea Armistice Agreement.” Please see the report sent by Xinhua News Agency reporters from Seoul and Pyongyang–
At the same time announce the expectations of each table
——How to decide to recover?
South Korea’s Blue House National Communication Chief Secretary Park Soo-hyun told the media on the same day that since April this year, the leaders of South Korea and North Korea have communicated on improving North-South relations in the form of exchanges of letters. The two sides agreed to first restore the previously interrupted North-South communication line. In addition, the leaders of the ROK and the DPRK also reached an agreement on the early restoration of mutual trust between the North and the South and the promotion of the development of North-South relations.
The North Korean Central News Agency issued a communique on the same day that according to the agreement between the leaders of the two countries, the two sides decided to resume all communication lines between North and South Korea from 10 o’clock in the morning of the same day.
——What are your expectations?
Park Soo-hyun said that the South Korean side expects that the restoration of the North-South communication line will play a positive role in improving and developing relations between South Korea and North Korea.
The KCNA Communiqué stated that at present, the whole nation hopes that inter-Korean relations, which are in a state of setbacks and stagnation, will be restored as soon as possible. The restoration of communication lines will play a positive role in improving and developing relations between North Korea and South Korea.
In addition, Yonhap News Agency believes that the resumption of communication lines is expected to provide an opportunity for the two parties to officially resume dialogue and improve relations. The way in which South Korea and North Korea will continue to communicate and interact in the next step will become the focus of attention from the outside world.
On September 19, 2018, in Pyongyang, North Korea, Kim Jong-un (right) and Moon Jae-in shook hands after a joint press conference. Published by Xinhua News Agency (Photo courtesy of the South Korean Joint Interview Mission in Pyongyang, the head of South Korea and North Korea)Review: Why “disconnected”?
In order to protest and counter South Korea’s ineffective handling of anti-North Korean leaflets distributed by “North Korean defectors,” North Korea announced on June 9 last year that it would cut off all communication lines between North Korea and South Korea, and fully convert South Korea work into “enemy work.” . On the 16th of the same month, North Korea blew up the inter-Korean liaison office building located in the Kaesong Industrial Park.
According to the KCNA Bulletin at the time, the lines that the DPRK will cut off include the communication lines maintained through the inter-Korean Liaison Office, the communication lines between the East and the Seas between the military of the DPRK and South Korea, the inter-Korean communication test lines, and the Workers’ Party of Korea The hotline between the Central Headquarters Building and the Blue House of the Presidential Palace of Korea.
The Inter-Korean Liaison Office was established in accordance with the “Panmunjom Declaration” issued after the leaders of the two countries met in Panmunjom in April 2018. It is the first liaison office in the history of North Korea and South Korea.
Analysts pointed out at the time that North Korea believed that it had made many concessions in the process of denuclearization of the peninsula and the improvement of North-South Korea relations and cooperated in good faith. However, South Korea has insufficient capabilities in developing North-South Korea relations and has limited role in promoting North Korea-US relations. In addition, North Korea has been subject to international sanctions for a long time, and originally hoped to partially alleviate its economic difficulties through inter-Korean economic and trade cooperation. However, many cooperation agreements between the two sides have been interfered by the United States and have become a dead letter. Faced with the dissemination of leaflets by South Korean anti-North Korean groups, North Korea took tough measures to express its long-standing dissatisfaction and disappointment with South Korea’s “inaction”.
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