North Korea appears to have stopped broadcasting loud noises towards the South, Seoul's military said Thursday, one day after South Korea halted its anti-Pyongyang loudspeaker campaign near the demilitarized zone.

South Korea’s military has shut down loudspeakers broadcasting anti-North Korean propaganda along the inter-Korean border. It's a move aimed at easing tensions.

A giant loudspeaker stands silently at a North Korean military outpost near the border with the South, as Seoul's military says its neighbour appears to have stopped broadcasting strange and unsettling noises along the border,