Kim Jong Un just had a hotline installed for chats with South Korea

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has a new phone on his desk — a direct line to South Korean President Moon Jae In.

The hotline was officially setup Friday, according to the president’s office in Seoul, and is likely to be used at least once in the coming days as the two leaders plan next week’s summit.

“It was as if we were talking to a neighbor right next door,” an official told the Yonhap news agency, revealing that South Korea had made the first call to check the line.

The move is the latest is an series of recent events that has dramatically eased tensions on the Korean Peninsula. During the Winter Olympics in February, athletes from the North and South marched under a unified flag, and last month a delegation of South Korean officials was greeted by Kim in Pyongyang.

Moon and Kim are set to meet at the Demilitarized Zone on April 27. South Korea confirmed this week the countries have discussed the possibility of signing a peace treaty, officially ending the Korean War fought in the 1950s.

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Kim is also set to meet Donald Trump in a high-profile summit next month. Trump said this week he was willing to walk away from the negotiating table if the meeting is not proving “fruitful.”

North Korea indicated this week it is willing to compromise, with Moon revealing Thursday that Kim will no longer demand the withdrawal of 28,500 U.S. troops from the region.

The White House, however, greeted the announcement cautiously, saying troop withdrawal was never an option in the first place.

Cover image: This picture taken on September 21, 2017 and released from North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency on September 22 shows North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un delivering a statement in Pyongyang as regards to a speech made by the president of the United States of America at the UN General Assembly. (STR/AFP/Getty Images)