North Korea Not Answering Inter-Korean Phone Line
|Kim Yo-jong is so upset she won’t let anyone answer the phone now:
North Korea did not answer daily phone calls from South Korea via liaison and military hotlines on Tuesday afternoon, hours after the sister of the North’s leader Kim Jong-un blasted Seoul and Washington for going ahead with combined military exercises.
The inter-Korean communication lines — the liaison hotline and the military channels in the eastern and western border regions — were in normal operation until the morning but the afternoon calls went unanswered, officials said.
“The daily call via the inter-Korean liaison office at 5 p.m. did not take place,” a unification ministry official said, adding that they are closely monitoring the situation.
Yonhap
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Being younger and more foolish at the time, I was in the Squadron office killing time when the hotline from the Command Post buzzed. No one else seemed to be around, so I picked it up, and in an amazing feat of cluelessness, said “Yes, Commissioner?” in the deepest voice I could muster.
The one thing that saved me from a fate I richly deserved was the caller was my pilot…
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