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NORTH and South Korea have restored suspended communication channels between them and agreed to improve ties, their governments said today.
While the move could help ease animosities on the Korean peninsula, it is unclear whether Pyongyang would go as far as to revive previous vigorous co-operation programmes with Seoul and get back to the nuclear talks with Washington.
Since April, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and South Korean President Moon Jae In have exchanged personal letters several times and decided to normalise the cross-border communication channels as a first step towards improving relations, Mr Moon’s office said.
Senior Blue House official Park Soo Hyun said the two leaders had agreed to “restore mutual confidence and develop their relationships again as soon as possible,” and the two Koreas subsequently reopened communication channels on Tuesday morning.
Last year, North Korea cut off all communication with South Korea in protest against what it called South Korea’s failure to stop activists from floating anti-Pyongyang leaflets across its border.
