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| South and North Korea 'agree deal to reduce tensions' | South and North Korea 'agree deal to reduce tensions' |
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| South and North Korea have agreed a deal to defuse tensions after a series of recent border confrontations, South Korea's Yonhap news agency says. | South and North Korea have agreed a deal to defuse tensions after a series of recent border confrontations, South Korea's Yonhap news agency says. |
| Both country's militaries have been on alert after a brief exchange of fire at the border last Thursday. | Both country's militaries have been on alert after a brief exchange of fire at the border last Thursday. |
| The North had threatened to use force to stop propaganda broadcasts by the South, started after two of its soldiers were injured by a landmine. | The North had threatened to use force to stop propaganda broadcasts by the South, started after two of its soldiers were injured by a landmine. |
| High-level negotiators have been meeting since Saturday to agree a deal. | High-level negotiators have been meeting since Saturday to agree a deal. |
| The talks in the abandoned "truce village" of Panmunjom inside the demilitarised zone were said to have ended at 00:55 local time on Tuesday (15:55 GMT Monday). | |
| 'Regret' | |
| Yonhap reported that the deal, to be announced later, would see North Korea express "regret" over the landmine incident earlier this month. | |
| In return, it said South Korea would stop the loudspeaker broadcasts that were resumed after an 11-year hiatus, in apparent retaliation for the landmine attack. | In return, it said South Korea would stop the loudspeaker broadcasts that were resumed after an 11-year hiatus, in apparent retaliation for the landmine attack. |
| North Korea insisted it was not behind the landmines and it also denied shelling the South last week - an incident that prompted artillery fire from the South. | |
| Pyongyang ordered its troops to be "on a war footing" on Friday while Seoul warned that it would "retaliate harshly" to any acts of aggression. About 4,000 residents were also evacuated from border areas in South Korea. | |
| The two Koreas remain technically at war, because the 1950-1953 conflict ended in an armistice, not a peace treaty. | |
| Loudspeakers and psychological warfare | |
| In 2004, South Korea and North Korea reached an agreement to dismantle their propaganda loudspeakers at the border. | |
| The broadcasts were part of a programme of psychological warfare, according to South Korean newspaper Korea Times, to deliver outside news so that North Korean soldiers and border-area residents could hear it. | |
| Mobilising the propagandists in North Korea |