Sentence examples for cross-border communications from inspiring English sources
Pyongyang also said it was shutting down two crucial cross-border communications hotlines.
State media reported that tens of thousands of North Korean employees would also be pulled out, with South Korean assets frozen and cross-border communications shut down.
It also said it was restoring cross-border communications lines it had cut off earlier this year out of anger over joint United States-South Korean military drills.
The International Telegraphic Union was founded in 1865 to facilitate speedy cross-border communications, and the Universal Postal Union followed in 1874.
"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.
There has been no public disclosure of any ruling by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court explaining its legal analysis of the 2008 FISA law and the Fourth Amendment as allowing "about the target" searches of Americans' cross-border communications.
Sweden, which passed a law in 2008 allowing its intelligence agency to monitor cross-border email and phone communications without a court order, has been relatively muted in its response.
A huge, cross-border security effort has improved communications, officials on both sides said.
Many special policies for cross-border trade and businesses, tourism, and communications have been implemented along the economic corridors.
"If things are not encoded on a technical level, if things are not enforced on the level of systems, rather than just words on a page, they're not really going to be meaningful when all our systems are reliance on cross border, international communications," he added.
Annie Machon, a former MI5 officer, said that communications interception by intelligence agencies and cross-border sharing of data was nothing new, and it was done to "circumvent" domestic laws.
