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North Korea, South Korea reach agreement

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Channel: Real Thing TV · 2015 · News & Politics

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North Korea, South Korea reach agreement.

North Korea and South Korea have reached an agreement to de-escalate tensions on the Korean Peninsula, South Korea's national security chief, Kim Kwan-jin, announced Monday.

South Korea will get the apology it demanded over recent military escalation by the North, and the South will stop broadcasting propaganda that infuriated the North.

North Korea says it "regrets" that South Korean soldiers were injured by landmines and lifts its "semi-state of war" under an agreement by the two countries, the Yonhap News Agency reported.

South Korea will stop its propaganda broadcasts over the border on Tuesday, Kim said

"I wish that we can build the new South and North Korea relationship that our people (wish for) by sincerely carrying out the agreed issues and building trust through dialogue and cooperation," he said. "During the meeting, it is very meaningful in the aspect that the North apologized over the landmine incident and that they agreed on making efforts to prevent such incidents from reoccurring and easing tension."

North Korea, through its state-run Korean Central News Agency, confirmed an agreement had been reached.

South Korean President Park Geun-hye had demanded Pyongyang apologize for recent provocations, including landmine blasts that badly wounded two South Korean soldiers this month.

"This is a matter of national security and safety of our people," she said. "This is not a matter where we can back down, even if North Korea maximizes its provocations and threatens security like it did in the past."

The mines, which exploded in the Demilitarized Zone that separates the two countries, set off an antagonistic spiral. South Korea, a key U.S. ally, responded by resuming propaganda broadcasts over the border for the first time in more than a decade, a move that infuriated Kim Jong Un's regime.

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