BEIJING, March 28 (Xinhuanet) -- The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea has cut off a key military hotline with that facilitates cross-border travel for South Koreans to an industrial complex in .

The DPRK’s chief delegate to the inter-Korean military made the announcement on Wednesday in a statement sent to his South Korean counterpart. The hotline is used to communicate between the DPRK and South Korea of the travel of South Korean workers to the Kaesong industrial complex. 900 South Korean workers were in Kaesong when the hotline was cut on Wednesday.

In an earlier incident in March 2009, the DPRK cut off the military hotline and 80 South Korean workers were left stranded in Kaesong for a day. Cross-border travel resumed after Pyongyang approved it through a South Korean office in Kaesong.

(Source: CNTV.cn)