North Korea goes silent for 3 days as military hotline calls from Seoul go unanswered

For three days straight, South Korea has been calling the North on the inter-Korean military hotline and finding nobody answering on the other side. The two Koreas usually call each other twice a day, once in the morning and once in the afternoon, but the calls have remained unanswered since April 7, 2023. Diplomatic experts said Pyongyang’s silence could be part of a build-up to new provocations, but there was no indication about what the North may be preparing to do.