North and South Korea on Friday restored a military hotline on the West of the peninsula, a statement released by South Korea’s Ministry of Unification said.

“The two Koreas agreed yesterday (Thursday) to restore the west coast military hotline from today (Friday),” Xinhua quoted a South Korean unification ministry spokesman as saying.

A successful test call was conducted at 10:51AM KST, officials said.

Severed at the height of inter-Korean tensions in March, the restoration of the military hotline was agreed as a step towards better coordinating travel between the two sides as they work towards reopening the shuttered Kaesong Industrial