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The mutual propaganda attacks mark a further deterioration of relations between the two Korean states that have engaged in no serious talks in recent months.

North Korea on Saturday demanded that the South halt anti-North propaganda broadcasts via loudspeakers along the border or face military action, a day after it denied Seoul’s accusation that it planted landmines that wounded two South Korean soldiers.

Hundreds of thousands of troops on both sides of the border guard the demilitarized zone that bisects the peninsula, a legacy of the 1950-53 Korean War, which ended in a truce rather than a peace treaty.

North Korea threatened Saturday to attack its southern neighbor after activists launched helium balloons carrying anti-Pyongang leaflets.

For more than a century, North Korea has followed Japan’s time zone, which set the local time nine hours ahead of Greenwich Mean Time.

South Korea has ramped up border security in the wake of the blasts and – after a break of more than a decade – resumed the broadcast of propaganda messages into the North, using batteries of powerful loudspeakers set up at several sites along the border.

South Korean officials said on Monday North Korean intruders planted three land mines on the South Korea side of the demilitarized zone – including one that exploded last Tuesday injuring two soldiers.

South Korea has resume propoganda broadcasts across its border with the North, in retaliation for an alleged land mine attack.

A Cheong Wa Dae spokesman said Obama re-invited Park to Washington.

AFP, citing an anonymous source who spoke to South Korea’s Yonhap news agency, says that Choe Yong-gon expressed concern at Kim’s forestry policies.

(CNN) – The South Korean military has warned North Korea of a “harsh” response to landmine blasts that seriously wounded two South Korean soldiers last week in the demilitarized zone.

But the defence ministry said further tests had confirmed “they were North Korean land mines – planted with the intention to kill”.

“One lost both legs in the first blast, involving two mines”, the newspaper notes, “The other soldier lost one leg in a second explosion as he tried to help his wounded colleague to safety”.

The desperately poor nation is led by an egotistical madman, and in another effort to distract the people of North Korea from thinking too much about the ongoing starvation in the country, “Great Leader” Kim Jong Un has declared that the country will now operate in...

The widow of late former South Korean President Kim Dae-jung left for North Korea under tight security Wednesday, after an anti-Pyongyang group had threatened to blow up her plane.