North Korea stopped broadcasting propaganda along the inter-Korean border, hours after the South took the first step by silencing its own loudspeakers — a move aimed at easing tensions.

South Korea has stopped using its propaganda loudspeakers along the northern border in an effort to reduce tensions between the two countries, the military said.

Two South Korean pilots suffered minor burns and lacerations while ejecting from a fighter jet that crashed during a takeoff attempt in Alaska, according to the country’s air force.

A South Korean court handed a suspended sentence to a North Korean defector who tried to cross the border back into the North using a stolen bus, according to local media.

In his inauguration speech, South Korea’s newly elected president pledged to strengthen the nation’s alliance with the United States while pursuing a pragmatic relationship with China.

About 200 U.S. troops based in South Korea have been temporarily redeployed to the Middle East, according to a South Korean military official cited in a local news report.

South Korea’s top presidential candidates offered differing approaches to President Donald Trump’s demands on defense cost-sharing during their final televised debate ahead of next week’s election.

A South Korean soldier raised in China has been arrested on suspicion of leaking classified military information about joint U.S.-South Korean exercises to Chinese intelligence agents, prosecutors said this month.

South Korea’s military on Friday firmly denied that any discussions have taken place with the United States regarding a potential withdrawal of American troops from the peninsula, following a media report suggesting the White House was considering such a move.

Extensive repairs are underway on a new North Korean destroyer after a “serious accident” damaged the warship during its ceremonial launch, state-run media reported Thursday.