North Korea says it will reopen inter-Korean military communication lines Saturday morning.

A South Korean government official said that the North notified Seoul by a fax message sent to the management office of the Gaeseong Industrial Complex on Friday afternoon that it will reopen the hotlines at eight a.m. Saturday.

Pyongyang cut communication lines on March ninth in protest of an annual joint military exercise between South Korea and the United States. The 12-day Key Resolve exercise ended on Friday.

Meanwhile, the North did not issue permission for cross-border travel by South Korean workers to and from the South-North joint industrial complex Friday. It's the third time the North has closed the inter-Korean border in the past two weeks.