Inter-Korean hotline opens, as Kim Jong-un and President Moon Jae-in prepare for their summit
Seoul — The two Koreas opened a hotline between their leaders on Friday, Seoul’s presidential office said, a week before a summit between North Korea’s Kim Jong-un and the South’s President Moon Jae-in. The line links the presidential Blue House in Seoul with the Pyongyang office of the nuclear-armed North’s State Affairs Commission, which Kim chairs — one of his most important titles. "The historic connection of the hotline between the leaders of the two Koreas has just been established," said senior Blue House official Youn Kun-young, adding that a test conversation between officials lasted four minutes and 19 seconds. It is the latest step in a whirlwind of diplomacy on and around the Korean peninsula, triggered by the Winter Olympics in the South. Moon and Kim are due to meet on Friday next week on the southern side of the in the Demilitarised Zone, in what will be only the third inter-Korean summit since the 1950-53 Korean War ended. The war ended with an armistice rather than ...
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