North Korea announced that leader Kim Jong Un suspended planned “military action plans” against South Korea after a meeting with the governing party’s Central Military Commission.
Recently, North Korea had blown up a joint liaison office on its side of the border, in order to declare an end to dialogue with South Korea, and then threaten military action.
Political tensions between South and North Korea’s have been rising due to North Korea’s objections to plans by defector-led groups in South Korea flying propaganda leaflets across the border and for a lack of progress in bilateral cooperation by Seoul.
Korean Central News Agency didn’t specify the reason for the decision, but the North Korean governing party’s video conference meeting also discussed documents outlining measures for “further bolstering the war deterrent of the country”.
A former South Korean military official who participated in inter-Korean military negotiations, Kim, said: “What’s clear is that the North said (the military action) was postponed, not cancelled,” said