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North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has ordered his military to suspend plans to take action against South Korea.
The North's Korean Central News Agency reported Wednesday that Kim made the decision a day earlier during a preliminary meeting of the ruling Workers' Party's Central Military Commission without providing further details.
The move came as a surprise as the regime has ratcheted up tensions on the Korean Peninsula in recent weeks.
Earlier, the North threatened unspecified military action against Seoul after blowing up an inter-Korean liaison office in protest of a leafleting campaign by defector groups in the South.
Pyongyang also completed reinstalling propaganda loudspeakers along the Demilitarized Zone, according to the South Korean military, after they were removed in May 2018 in line with the Panmunjom Declaration.
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