South Korea at midnight on Thursday began a halt to land, air, and sea military exercises and began the operation of a designated no-fly zone along the military demarcation line (MDL), an official from the ROK defense ministry confirmed to NK News.

Seoul believes the North has taken corresponding steps, the source added.

The measures are in line with September’s Agreement on the Implementation of the Historic Panmunjom Declaration in the Military Domain, signed by the two Koreas’ defense ministers on the sidelines of the fifth inter-Korean summit in Pyongyang.

The two Koreas previously agreed to halt live-fire artillery drills and