The Parchamites took control over the ministries of finance, agriculture, communications and border affairs.
But at the same time, communications across borders is exploding.
Mobile everywhere The drive to supply seamless mobile communications across borders, with no dead zones or roaming costs.
The project would address ways "to guarantee the freedom to connect, the need for open, end-to-end networks, and the free flow of data and communications across borders on a unified Internet".
"Cross-border communications have been improved, command levels at border coordination centers have increased, and command relationships have been redefined where needed," Lt. Col. Jimmie E. Cummings Jr., a NATO spokesman, wrote by e-mail.
Critical shortcomings exist in emergency communications, computer integration, border defense and information sharing.
The North had threatened the move in reaction to taunts from the South Korean news media that the North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un, had cut hot lines and other communications across the border, but did not want to risk one of his most precious sources of hard currency.
Translators were employed for cross-border communications.
Pyongyang also said it was shutting down two crucial cross-border communications hotlines.
The behemoths can use the ruling to argue against future attempts by governments to obtain communications beyond their borders.
