North Korea fails to answer South Korea's daily routine calls via inter-Korean communication channel for sixth day. Reported by Yonhap.

According to the Ministry of Unification of South Korea, the DPRK did not answer regular calls at 9 am on Wednesday, April 12. North Korea hasn't returned calls from South Korea since last Friday. Seoul's call to open talks over military lines of communication also went unanswered..

North Korea and South Korea usually have two telephone conversations every day at 9. 00 and 17. 00.

In July 2021, the DPRK relaunched an inter-Korean hotline about a year after cutting off a communication channel to protest Seoul activists' leaflet campaigns critical of Pyongyang..

The line of communication was cut again in August of that year for about two months in protest against military exercises between Seoul and Washington..

The latest suspension of hotlines comes as tensions escalate on the Korean peninsula following North Korea's recent weapons tests to protest joint South Korean-US military exercises..

On Tuesday, April 11, South Korean Unification Minister Kwon Young-Se expressed "

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It was previously reported that North Korea may conduct a lower, longer trajectory test of intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs), as well as a seventh nuclear test, as early as this year to improve its military capabilities.. This was stated by the legislators of South Korea, referring to representatives of intelligence.