Across Asia: Korean Peninsula

New hotline connected

The recently modernized military communications channel between The Republic of Korea and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) is officially in operation starting yesterday, Seoul's Ministry of Unification said.

The military hotline across the heavily armored border was under construction last week, as old copper cable occasionally created technical hitches, sometimes causing a delay in exchanges between the two sides, the ministry said. The hotline will be used to facilitate border crossings.