[Why did North Korea and South Korea restart the communication line?]North Korea decided to restart all communication lines between North Korea and South Korea starting at 9 a.m. that day. Analysts believe that the resumption of communication between the DPRK and South Korea is an important step in the overall improvement of bilateral relations and will have a positive impact on future relations between the DPRK and South Korea. South Korea plays the role of a coordinator in the negotiations between North Korea and the United States. Therefore, the improvement of the relationship between North Korea and South Korea will also bring about the possibility of restarting the negotiations on the denuclearization of the peninsula between North Korea and the United States in the future. The South Korean side also hopes to resume the denuclearization of the peninsula and advance the relevant substantive consultations on the peace process on the peninsula at an early date by restarting the dialogue, and to promote dialogue and communication between the DPRK and the United States, so as to promote the establishment of permanent peace on the peninsula.
The North Korean Central News Agency issued a communique on the 4th that North Korea has decided to restart all communication lines between North Korea and South Korea from 9 am that day. The Ministry of Unification of South Korea confirmed that the South Korea-North Korea Liaison Office started talking on the same day. What is the status of the reopening of communication lines between North Korea and South Korea? Why is the communication line restarted now? What impact will this move of the two sides have on the promotion of peace on the peninsula?
What is the status of restarting the communication line?
The North Korean Central News Agency’s communiqué emphasized that North Korea has decided to restart all communications lines between North Korea and South Korea from 9 a.m. that day. The South Korean authorities should deeply understand the significance of reopening the communication line between North Korea and South Korea, and make active efforts to complete the major tasks that need to be prerequisite for improving the relationship between the DPRK and South Korea and opening up a glorious future in the future.
In order to protest and counter South Korea’s ineffective handling of the “defectors” hostile to North Korea, North Korea announced on June 9, 2020 that it would cut off all communication lines between North Korea and South Korea. On July 27 this year, the communication line between North Korea and South Korea, which had been interrupted for 13 months, was restored. However, following the joint military exercises between South Korea and the United States in August, the communication between North Korea and South Korea was once again interrupted.
South Korean Unification Minister Lee In-young told the media on the morning of the 4th that after the communication line is restored, the next step can be to consider establishing a system that can conduct video conferences, so as to conduct consultations in various fields and levels, restart the previously stalled dialogue between the North and the South, and better fulfill them. Various agreements reached between South Korea and North Korea.
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