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" This morning, a bevy of news outlets reported that North Korea went and did the very thing that drives moms and significant others crazy worldwide: they stopped answering phone calls. Only these calls were coming from South Korea (with whom they&amp;#039;re technically still at war), and this phone was the two-way hotline in the Demilitarized Zone, installed in 1971 as an emergency link for quick communication between the two sides. North Korea &amp;quot;abrogates all agreements reached on non-aggression between the North and the South,&amp;quot; read a statement released by the state-run Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of Korea. &amp;quot;It notifies the South side that it will immediately cut off the North-South hotline.&amp;quot; &amp;quot;The North did not answer our call this morning,&amp;quot; said an official for South Korea&amp;#039;s Unification Ministry this morning, confirming that the hotline has indeed been cut off. We can&amp;#039;t totally blame the North, though, because who still makes phone calls? It&amp;#039;s worth noting that the Moscow-Washington hotline (the infamous, incorrectly-dubbed &amp;quot;red telephone&amp;quot;), established in 1963, was transitioned to a secure computer link over which the two countries can (and do!) email each other on the reg. Maybe the South should&amp;#039;ve tried texting. Or Snapchat. Or tweeting at the North&amp;#039;s official Twitter account. Anything but calling. This is the 21st century. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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