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North, South Korea on high alert amid talks to end standoff
Pyongyang deploys twice the usual artillery strength at the border; Seoul says it has no plans to halt propaganda broadcasts
Add BT as a preferred sourcePublished Sun, Aug 23, 2015 · 09:50 PM
Seoul
TOP aides to the leaders of North and South Korea negotiated into the evening on Sunday after talking through the previous night to try to ease tensions involving an exchange of artillery fire that brought the peninsula to the brink of armed conflict.
The rare and unusually long meeting at the Panmunjom truce village inside the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) began on Saturday evening, shortly after North Korea's deadline for Seoul to halt anti-Pyongyang propaganda broadcasts or face military action.
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