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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.

There was no immediate official word on the outcome, but the South’s Yonhap news agency said both sides had reached agreement, with the North voicing “regret” for recent provocations, and the South conditionally undertaking to halt loudspeaker propaganda...

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...

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.

It said a failure to take down the speakers would spark ‘an all-out military action of justice to blow up all means for “anti-north psychological warfare” on the front lines’.

But he failed to clarify their perpetrators and victims while making only an indirect “apology”, by vowing to inherit previous governments’ positions.

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...