SEOUL, Aug. 27 (Yonhap) – North Korea went unanswered on inter-Korean lines of communication on Friday as South Korea and the United States concluded their nine-day joint military exercise yesterday.
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The North did not respond to a regular phone call through the inter-Korean liaison office at 9 a.m. this morning, an official from the Unification ministry said. He was also unreachable on military hotlines.
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The two Koreas restored their communication channels on July 27, 13 months after Pyongyang unilaterally cut them off in June last year in protest against anti-North Korean leaflets sent from the south.
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The North, however, has again refused to answer phone calls from the South via government and military hotlines since August 10 after Kim Yo-jong, the sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, described the military exercise. ‘been allies as an “unwelcome act of self-destruction for which a high price must be paid”.
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