Korea and North Korea restored the communication hotline between the two regions, which were cut off when bilateral stress escalated from last year.

After many mail exchanges from April, South Korean President Moon Jae-in and North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un agreed to resume the hotline between the two regions, Park Soo-hyun, green house press secretary

They also agreed to restore the trust as soon as possible and continue to promote relational development processes, Park added.

The Korean Central Affairs Agency (KCNA) on the same day reported the entire contact channel between the two regions returned to 10am on July 27 (8:00 hours in Hanoi) according to the agreement between the two leaders.

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un (left) and South Korean President Moon Jae-in (right) walk after lunch in September 2018.

North Korea cuts a hotline with Korea in June 2020, when the relationship between the two regions becomes tense.

The Ministry of Defense Korea announced a military hotline that was tested on July 27 and regular communication activities with a frequency twice a day will be resumed.

South Korea's unified ministry, the agency solving problems between the two regions, said telephone lines in Dinh Chien Panmunjom village have been restored, expressing hope to restart cooperation with North Korea.

President Moon Jae-in called to restore the hotline and negotiations between the two regions, and expect US President Joe Biden to re-launch the negotiation efforts to promote the non-nuclearization process

It is unclear the move to resolving the hotline to Korea to have an important indication that North Korea is willing to respond to the moves of President Moon and the Biden Government.

US officials call for a reliable, predictable and constructive road to start the Non-Nuclear Negotiations of the Korean Peninsula.

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The United States continued to contact North Korea since President Biden took office.

We need to witness North Korea's seriousness to proceed to a non-nuclear target to assert that real progress, he said.

Yang Moo-jin, Professor at the Korean Research University in Seoul, said the exchange of information related to Covid-19 pandemic and natural disasters could be a way to rebuild the relationship between the two

The hotline restoring activity takes place in the context of the two regions to celebrate the 68th anniversary of the Family Family Foundation of the North War 1950-1953.