The reopening follows North Korean chief Kim Jong Un's vow final week to restart communication in an deal with to the nation's rubber-stamp legislature.
"North Korea has no reasons to provoke or hurt the South," Kim mentioned on the time.
South Korea's Unification Ministry mentioned in a press release that North Korea had responded on the joint line on Monday morning. The two international locations' militaries have additionally restored their hotline alongside the east and west coasts, in line with the South Korean Defense Ministry.
In a message to reporters, the ministry mentioned it hoped larger communication would assist scale back tensions on the peninsula.
Communications between the 2 international locations -- together with key connections between the 2 international locations' presidential workplace, militaries, and spy businesses -- have lengthy been troubled.
In June 2020, North Korea pulled out of ongoing dialogues, citing displeasure at propaganda leaflet activists have been sending throughout the border. This July, North Korea briefly restored the communication strains -- solely to chop them once more two weeks later.
"South Korean authority must deeply appreciate the meaning of resumption of North-South communication lines and repair the North-South relations and make active efforts to resolve important issues that are pre-requisites to opening a bright path forward," North Korean state media reported.
South Korea known as for rapprochement on the United Nations final month, with President Moon Jae-in suggesting that the 2 Koreas with the US, or the 2 Koreas with the US and China, "declare that the war on the Korean Peninsula is over" throughout his deal with to the UN's General Assembly.
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