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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 Korea’s maneuver was detected hours after the two Koreas reached an agreement on ways to defuse heightened military tension on the peninsula in marathon negotiations.

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...

The talks that began Saturday at the border village of Panmunjom, where the Koreas agreed to the 1953 ceasefire that stopped fighting in the Korean War, also resulted in Pyongyang agreeing to lift a “quasi-state of war” declared last week, according to South...

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.

Last week, North Korea reportedly fired shells at a South Korean military base across the demilitarized zone trying to shoot loudspeakers broadcasting propaganda.

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...