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North and South Korea resumed top-level crisis talks today for avoiding a threatened military clash, even as Seoul accused Pyongyang of undermining the process with renewed naval and land deployments. The North responded with an ultimatum and the talks got underway just hours...

The crisis erupted as South Korea refused to silence giant loudspeakers – in defiance of a warning by the North. In sending messages of war and offer of a possibility of a way out of the situation, North Koreans are up to their usual antics – trying to foment discord...

North Korea proposed the talks on Friday, according to South Korea’s presidential office.

Hwang is considered by outside analysts to be North Korea’s second most important official after supreme leader Kim Jong Un.

Attendants at the meeting include Hwang Pyong So, director of the General Political Bureau of the Korean People’s Army, Kim Yang Gon, secretary of the Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea on the North Korean side and Kim Kwan-jin, chief of the National...

North Korea had given the South until 5:00 p.m. Pyongyang time Saturday (0830 UTC) to stop the anti-Pyongyang cross-border broadcasts, which Seoul started up last week following a landmine explosion that wounded two South Korean soldiers.

The two Koreas traded threats on Friday following a brief exchange of fire a day earlier, in a confrontation that experts say carries a risk that the inexperienced North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un will provoke South Korea to launch a major military retaliation.