The Koreas normalize their maritime military communication

Seoul.- The two Koreas again normalized the communication between their warships under agreements to facilitate rapprochement and denuclearization The Ministry South Korean National Defense reported the Department of National Defense

For the first time in 10 years, military vessels of both countries will return to communicate by radio with normalcy in order to avoid episodes of tension.

A South Korean naval vessel near Yeonpyeong Island (on the scene of a North Korean bombing in 2010) proceeded today to a first test, at which a North Korean ship responded immediately and satisfactorily. In May 2008, in the midst of the deterioration of inter-Korean relations after the Conservatives' victory in the December 2007 presidential elections in South Korea the maritime communication between the two countries was it was cut off when the ships North Koreans stopped responding to South Korean radio messages.

The two countries, technically still at war, had agreed to standardize these communications in mid-June 2004.

This new normalization responds to the current rapprochement between the two neighbors, organized in the two summits that the North Korean leader , Kim Jong-un has maintained since April with President Southern, Moon Jae-in .

These two appointments were the key to Kim to hold another historic summit on June 12 in Singapore with the president of USA Donald Trump ]

After a period of tension in 2017, the two leaders signed a declaration in this city where Pyongyang committed to work to its "total denuclearization " in exchange that Washington guarantees the security of the diet.