DHAKA: Top-level talks between North and South Korea to defuse a border stand-off have continued for a second night, officials from the South say.

The first session of talks lasted 10 hours, finishing just before dawn on Sunday. No details have emerged, BBC reported.

Senior aides to the two countries' leaders are meeting at the Panmunjom truce village on the border.

The talks started before a deadline set by North Korea for the South to stop broadcasting anti-communist propaganda.

It wants banks of loudspeakers, which have been blasting news bulletins, weather forecasts and music from the South to be dismantled.

Pyongyang had threatened to open fire if Seoul failed to comply and moved artillery into positions to fire on the speakers.

As the second round began on Sunday afternoon, South Korea's military said the North was building up artillery units at the border and deploying submarines.

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