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Two Koreas set up first military hotline
| "Hello? Hello?... Damn! They hung up on us!" |
SEOUL: South and North Korea on Wednesday set up a first cross-border military hotline and conducted a trial run in an effort to avoid accidental clashes between the two sides, officials said. The two sides, still on truce since the end of the 1950-53 Korean War, agreed last month to run the hotline between communication liaison offices on either side of the western border. "It is the first direct communications linkage between the military authorities of the two Koreas," a South Korean defence ministry official said after a test run on the telephone and fax line.[Span Class=Old Mel Brooks routine]
(Mel picks up phone)"Hello? You don't say."
(listens) "You don't say."
(listens) "You don't say." (hangs up phone)
(Greek chorus offstage) "Who was it?"
"He didn't say."
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Posted by: Fred 2005-08-11 |
