Korean Leaders Back Off the Insults, Defusing Tensions
South and North Korean officials shake hands after their meeting at the Panmunjom in Paju, South Korea on August 25, 2015.
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Negotiators from North Korea and South Korea reached an agreement involving concessions on both sides to defuse a military standoff that had taken tensions on the peninsula to their highest level in years.
The regime in Pyongyang agreed to lift its “semi-state of war” and expressed regret over landmine blasts that maimed two South Korean soldiers, while the government in Seoul stopped propaganda broadcasts across the heavily fortified border at noon Tuesday.