North Korea ignores South’s phone calls 5 days in a row, likely protesting US military drills

North Korea has reduce off common communications with its southern counterpart for the fifth day in a row.

South Korean government officials introduced Friday that its northern neighbor has failed to reply by way of the two-way army liaison line usually used twice a day.

Since then, the North Korean authorities has continued to refuse utilizing the cellphone system, seemingly in protest of joint army drills between the U.S., South Korea and Japan.

NORTH KOREA CUTS OFF ROUTINE CALLS WITH SOUTH KOREA AS TENSIONS RISE

On this image taken close to the truce village of Panmunjom contained in the demilitarized zone (DMZ) separating the 2 Koreas, a North Korean flag flutters within the wind on the propaganda village of Gijungdong in North Korea. (Anthony Wallace/AFP by way of Getty Photographs)

“The federal government expresses sturdy remorse over the North’s unilateral and irresponsible angle. We strongly warn that this can solely lead the North to isolate itself and face harder conditions,” Kwon Younger-se, South Korea’s unification minister, stated in an announcement on Tuesday.

A two-way cellphone line connects representatives of each North and South Korea for logistical and diplomatic purposes.

It’s usually used twice each day – at 9 a.m. and 5 p.m.

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A TV display screen reveals a file picture of North Korea’s missiles launch throughout a information program on the Seoul Railway Station in South Korea. (AP Picture/Ahn Younger-joon)

South Korean officers claimed there is no such thing as a defect or failure of the communication expertise itself, indicating that North Korea is being willfully unresponsive.

The silence is almost certainly a protest of more and more frequent joint military drills within the area organized between the U.S., South Korea and Japan.

North Korea state media warned final week that current U.S.-South Korea army drills are pushing the worldwide safety scenario within the area to “the brink of a nuclear struggle.” 

NORTH KOREAN STATE MEDIA SAYS US-SOUTH KOREA MILITARY DRILLS PUSH REGION TO ‘BRINK OF A NUCLEAR WAR’

North Korea state media warned final week that current U.S.-South Korea army drills are pushing the worldwide safety scenario within the area to “the brink of a nuclear struggle.” (Getty Photographs)

The fiery remarks got here a day after the U.S. military flew nuclear-capable B-52 bombers over the Korean peninsula throughout joint workouts with South Korea. 

“The U.S. kicked off completely different largest-ever joint army drills towards the DPRK concurrently regardless of the latter’s repeated grave warnings, pushing the safety scenario of the Korean peninsula to the brink of a nuclear struggle,” learn an article revealed by the state-run Korean Central Information Company on Thursday.  

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A U.S. Air Drive B-52H Stratofortress plane, prime, flies in formation with South Korea’s Air Drive F-15K fighters over the western sea of Korean peninsula throughout a joint air drill in South Korea. (South Korea Protection Ministry by way of AP)

Plane service USS Nimitz additionally participated in naval anti-submarine drills this week alongside U.S., South Korean and Japanese destroyers.