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My Profile Top News Reuters top ten news stories delivered to your inbox each day. Subscribe You are here: Home > News > International > Article Home Business & Finance News U.S. Politics International Technology Entertainment Sports Lifestyle Oddly Enough Environment Health Science Special Coverage Video Pictures Your View The Great Debate Blogs Weather Reader Feedback Do More With Reuters RSS Widgets Mobile Podcasts Newsletters Your View Make Reuters My Homepage Partner Services CareerBuilder Affiliate Network Professional Products Support (Customer Zone) Reuters Media Financial Products About Thomson Reuters North Korea says holding 2 Americans Sat Mar 21, 2009 8:52am EDT Email | Print | Share | Reprints | Single Page [-] Text [+] By Miyoung Kim SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea reopened a military hotline with the South on Saturday, a day after Washington and Seoul ended annual defense drills Pyongyang had called preparations for an invasion. The North also confirmed it had detained two Americans on Tuesday for "illegally" crossing its border from China and said they were being investigated. Washington said on Friday that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was trying to resolve the issue over the two female journalists, who were detained while filming a story for an online news company. Pyongyang cut the military hotline, the only telephone link between the two Koreas, at the start of the annual U.S.-South Korean drills on March 9. A spokesman for Seoul's unification ministry said it was restored earlier on Saturday. But the move did not signal the North was ready to tone down its rhetoric ahead of a planned rocket launch early next month. North Korean media on Saturday called the drills the "biggest maneuvers for a nuclear war against the DPRK (North Korea) in history in terms of the aggressor forces involved and their duration." Tension on the peninsula are already running with the North's announcement it would launch a satellite between April 4 and 8. On Saturday, the North issued a notice to aviators saying it will close two routes in its airspace from April 4 to 8 between the hours 0200 and 0700 GMT (10:00 p.m. EDT and 3:00 a.m. EDT) for a satellite launch, an official at Japan's transport ministry said. Officials in Seoul and Washington say the launch is really a disguised test of its long-range Taepodong-2 missile. JOURNALISTS The detention of the journalists comes at an awkward time for Washington, which has condemned the planned rocket launch. "Two Americans were detained on March 17 while illegally intruding into the territory of the DPRK by crossing the DPRK-China border. A competent organ is now investigating the case," the North's official news agency KCNA said without giving more details. South Korean media and diplomatic sources said this week North Korean security officials detained the two as they filmed across the Tumen River from the Chinese side of the border. A media source has said the two women were working for Current TV, a U.S.-based online news company. A diplomatic source said earlier the reporters were on the frozen Tumen when taken by North Korean security guards. The Tumen runs along the eastern section of the border with China. Continued... View article on single page Share: Del.icio.us Digg Mixx Yahoo! 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