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<p>North Korea has suspended military action plans against South Korea, Reuters reported quoting the official KCNA news agency on Wednesday.</p>

<p>The latest development comes amid report suggested North Korean troops were taking down loudspeakers recently reinstalled at the fortified border.</p>

<p>North Korean leader Kim Jong-un presided over a video conference meeting of the ruling party's Central Military Commission on Tuesday, where members "took stock of the prevailing situation" before deciding to suspend the military plans, the report said, without elaborating.</p>

<p>The committee also discussed documents outlining measures for "further bolstering the war deterrent of the country," KCNA report added.</p>

<p>Tensions between the Korean rival have been rising over Pyongyang's objections to plans by defector-led groups in the South to send propaganda leaflets into the North.</p>

<p>North Korea claims the moves violate an agreement between the two aimed at preventing military confrontation and accused the defectors of insulting the dignity of North Korea's supreme leadership.</p>

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<p>North Korea's military was seen removing about 10 loudspeakers near the demilitarized zone (DMZ) on Wednesday, just days after they were seen reinstalling around 20 of the devices, South Korea's Yonhap news agency reported, citing unnamed military sources. About 40 such systems were taken down after the two Koreas signed an accord in 2018 to cease "all hostile acts".</p>

<p>A spokesman for South Korea's Unification Ministry, which handles relations with the North, said it is monitoring the situation and had no change in its stance that inter-Korean agreements should be kept.</p>

<p>Kim Jong-un's decision to suspend the unspecified military actions may represent a reprieve from weeks of increasingly provocative moves by North Korea.</p>

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<p>In recent weeks, the North blew up a joint liaison office on its side of the border and declared an end to dialogue with the South.</p>

<p>Reuters report quoted Jenny Town, with the US-based North Korea-monitoring website 38 North, as saying that anti-South Korea rhetoric from the North over the past week had left room for flexibility, but it was still unclear where the latest moves will lead.</p>

<p>"Overall, it doesn’t appear that the North has necessarily wanted to be overly provocative," she said. "While it seems set on reversing the measures taken in the inter-Korean agreements -in a dramatic fashion - so far, the rhetoric has already been milder since the demolition of the liaison office."</p>


North Korea has suspended military action plans against South Korea, Reuters reported quoting the official KCNA news agency on Wednesday. The latest development comes amid report suggested North Korean troops were taking down loudspeakers recently reinstalled at the fortified border.

North Korea has suspended military action plans against South Korea, Reuters reported quoting the official KCNA news agency on Wednesday. The latest development comes amid report suggested North Korean troops were taking down loudspeakers recently reinstalled at the fortified border. North Korean leader Kim Jong-un presided over a video conference meeting of the ruling party's Central Military Commission on Tuesday, where members "took stock of the prevailing situation" before deciding to suspend the military plans, the report said, without elaborating. The committee also discussed documents outlining measures for "further bolstering the war deterrent of the country," KCNA report added. Tensions between the Korean rival have been rising over Pyongyang's objections to plans by defector-led groups in the South to send propaganda leaflets into the North. North Korea claims the moves violate an agreement between the two aimed at preventing military confrontation and accused the defectors of insulting the dignity of North Korea's supreme leadership. Also read: North Korea seen reinstalling border loudspeakers; satellite pictures show liaison office standing but damaged North Korea's military was seen removing about 10 loudspeakers near the demilitarized zone (DMZ) on Wednesday, just days after they were seen reinstalling around 20 of the devices, South Korea's Yonhap news agency reported, citing unnamed military sources. About 40 such systems were taken down after the two Koreas signed an accord in 2018 to cease "all hostile acts". A spokesman for South Korea's Unification Ministry, which handles relations with the North, said it is monitoring the situation and had no change in its stance that inter-Korean agreements should be kept. Kim Jong-un's decision to suspend the unspecified military actions may represent a reprieve from weeks of increasingly provocative moves by North Korea. × In recent weeks, the North blew up a joint liaison office on its side of the border and declared an end to dialogue with the South. Reuters report quoted Jenny Town, with the US-based North Korea-monitoring website 38 North, as saying that anti-South Korea rhetoric from the North over the past week had left room for flexibility, but it was still unclear where the latest moves will lead. "Overall, it doesn’t appear that the North has necessarily wanted to be overly provocative," she said. "While it seems set on reversing the measures taken in the inter-Korean agreements -in a dramatic fashion - so far, the rhetoric has already been milder since the demolition of the liaison office."

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