On Feb. 6, the United Nations Command (UNC) posted a photo of the telephone that serves as its direct line of communication with North Korea on its official Twitter account. The light pink telephone is reminiscent of older telephones. The tweet added that the UNC uses it “twice daily” for routine communications checks, and that it was used to exchange over 130 messages in 2019.

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