<span style="color: #222222;">North Korea blew up 10 guard posts in the Demilitarized Zone on Tuesday as the two Koreas pursue a reconciliation drive. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">The move is one of the steps agreed during the Pyongyang summit between the South's President Moon Jae-in and the North's leader Kim Jong Un in Pyongyang in September.</span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">The North told the South that it would blow up the 10 facilities almost simultaneously, Seoul's defence ministry said,  that Southern soldiers observed and confirmed the guard posts were completely ruined at the announced time.</span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Seoul has been tearing down 10 guard posts of its own, mostly using excavators, a defence ministry spokesman said.</span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">The North has more of the facilities – which include both surface structures and underground elements – and according to Yonhap news agency, the moves will leave it with around 150 in the area, with the South having about 50.</span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">South Korea has pursued a policy of engagement with its isolated, nuclear-armed neighbour, in increasing contrast to Washington, which insists pressure should be maintained on Pyongyang until it denuclearises.</span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Despite its name, the area around the DMZ is one of the most fortified places on earth, replete with minefields and barbed-wire fences.</span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">But under plans to ease tensions agreed in Pyongyang, the two Koreas are demilitarising the border truce village of Panmunjom, to leave it manned by 35 unarmed personnel from each side.</span><br />