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North Korea on Monday reestablished its direct lines of communication with the South and urged the neighboring country to maintain a "positive" attitude to channel its bilateral relations. "The relevant bodies will reestablish all north-south communication lines from 9:00 on October 4 (00:00 GMT the same day)," reported the state news agency KCNA. Read also:  China Is Sending 38 Fighter Planes Into Taiwanese Airspace Shortly after that time, the South Korean government confirmed that the North had answered its call and that military communications had been reactivated, some two months after Pyongyang cut off communications in mid-August in protest of joint military exercises in Seoul and South Korea. Washington. The reestablishment of these lines today comes days after the North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un, declared in a speech before the Supreme People's Assembly (Parliament) his intention to resume communication with the South in early October. In the statement...

The self-declared nuclear power North Korea has fired a short-range missile into the open sea, according to the South Korean military. The missile was shot down from Chagang province on the border with China and flown towards the Sea of Japan, the General Staff in South Korea announced on Tuesday. It was therefore initially unclear how far it flew and what type of missile it was. South Korea's National Security Council expressed its regret over the new missile test by the neighboring country. Read also:  Taliban Kill And Hang The Japanese government, which also confirmed the missile launch, assumed it was a ballistic missile, according to reports from the Kyodo news agency. UN resolutions prohibit North Korea from testing such missiles, which, depending on their design, could also carry a nuclear warhead. The country is subject to severe international sanctions because of its nuclear weapons program. North Korea had already tested two short-range ballistic missiles a good two weeks...