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A deal has been signed between North and South Korea to reduce tension on border, media reported on Tuesday.

The marathon negotiations have pushed aside warnings of imminent war on the Korean peninsula, but South Korea said its neighbour continues to prepare for conflict and has doubled the strength of its frontline artillery forces.

The negotiations were aimed at ending a risky military stand-off which triggered a rare artillery exchange over the border last week, after which North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un ordered his frontline troops onto a war-footing.

“It is very merciful to grab an opportunity for developing inter-Korean relations and preventing the recurrence of provocative acts through this round of high-level inter- governmental contact between the two Koreas”, Kim Kwan-jin, South Korean President Park...

The joint accord, signed by the two countries on Tuesday, includes a guarantee from Seoul to turn off loudspeakers blasting high-decibel propaganda across the North Korean border, in light of Pyongyang having “expressed regret” at the maiming of two South Korean...

South Korea stopped all propaganda broadcasts in frontline areas from noon Tuesday as agreed upon during the top-level talks between chief military aides to the leaders of the two Koreas, Xinhua cited an official at Seoul’s defence ministry as saying.

North Korean troops are eagerly awaiting an order “to inflict a shower of fire” on their foes, North Korea’s official Korean Central News Agency said Sunday.

The relations got even worse a few years ago when a South Korean warship was sunk.

The discovery came two days after North Korean leader Kim Jong-un placed frontline troops in full combat readiness, declaring a “quasi-state of war”.

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...

Tens of thousands of South Korean and US troops Monday began a military exercise simulating an all-out North Korean attack, as Pyongyang matched Seoul in resuming a loudspeaker propaganda campaign across their heavily-fortified border.

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

South Korea’s Director of National Security Kim Kwan-jin and Unification Minister Hong Yong-pyo joined the talks, as well as Hwang Pyong-so, the director of the General Political Bureau of the North Korean Army, and Kim Yang-gon, the top official in charge of inter-Korean...

The talks in Panmunjom were led by South Korean national security adviser Kim Kwan-Jin and his North Korean counterpart Hwang Pyong-So – a close confidante of leader Kim Jong-Un.

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