South Korea and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) agreed Thursday to completely restore military communication lines along the eastern and western areas after holding general-grade talks, Seoul's defense¹ ministry² said.

 

本周四，韩国与朝鲜在进行将军级别会谈之后，约定彻底恢复东部和西部地区的军事通信线路。
 

 

General-level military officers from the two sides held talks on military affairs, the first of its kind in over 10 years, at Tongilgak, a DPRK building in the truce³ village of Panmunjom that straddles the divided Koreas. The last general-level military dialogue between Seoul and Pyongyang was held in December 2007.

 

The two sides agreed to completely restore the eastern and western military communication lines, while thoroughly⁴ implementing⁵ the agreement reached in June 2004 during the general-grade inter-Korean talks to prevent maritime⁶ conflicts in the western waters along the border.

 

The western military communication line was already restored in January as the high-level inter-Korean dialogue was resumed in the month. 

 

The western military channel had been cut since February 2016 when then South Korean government closed down the inter-Korean industrial complex in the DPRK's border town of Kaesong over Pyongyang's nuclear test.

 

The eastern military communication line has been severed⁷ until now as it was destroyed by forest fire.

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