SEOUL, Aug 25, 2015 (AFP) - North and South Korea stepped back from the brink Tuesday, with an agreement that ended a dangerous military stand-off but left a host of perennial tension-raising irritants unresolved.
Under the terms outlined in a joint communique, the South undertook to switch off loudspeakers blasting propaganda messages across the border, after the North expressed "regret" at the maiming of two South Korean soldiers in mine blasts earlier this month.
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