North and South Korea are holding a second day of talks in what is being seen as a positive sign in efforts to ease tensions that have brought the peninsula to the brink of armed conflict.
Top aides to the countries’ leaders began meeting on Saturday
at the Panmunjom truce village inside the Demilitarised Zone or DMZ.
The rivals were under pressure after the North set an ultimatum for the South to halt anti-Pyongyang propaganda broadcasts or face military action. That deadline passed without any reported incident.
But both countries remain on high alert.
Current tensions flared early this month when two South Korean soldiers were wounded by landmines along the border. The North denies laying the mines.
But days later, Seoul began its propaganda broadcasts in three-hour bursts from 11 banks of loudspeakers, including news reports and pop music from the South, resuming a tactic both sides halted in 2004.
An exchange of artillery fire followed.
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