<span style="color: #222222;">North Korea, South Korea and the US-led United Nations Command today began talks on demilitarising a section of the heavily fortified border dividing the peninsula. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Seoul's Defence Ministry said, the first meeting between the South, North and the UNC on disarming the Joint Security Area (JSA) is being held at Panmunjom.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"> </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">The JSA, also known as the truce village of Panmunjom, is the only spot along the 250-kilometre frontier where troops from the two countries stand face to face.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"> </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">It was a designated neutral zone until 1976, when North Korean soldiers attacked a work party trying to chop down a tree inside the Demilitarized Zone, leaving two US army officers dead.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"> </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">South and North Korea agreed to take measures to ease military tensions on their border at a meeting in Pyongyang last month between Presidents Moon Jae-in and Kim Jong Un.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"> </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Earlier this month, the two sides began removing landmines at the JSA as part of the deal.</span><br />