<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">South Korea and North Korea have agreed to take steps to ease thetensions on the Peninsula, including a plan to withdraw some troops from borderguard posts on a trial basis. </span></p>''<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:times new roman;color:#222222;mso-fareast-language:en-in"> </span></p>''<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:times new roman;color:#222222;mso-fareast-language:en-in">This was announced by  South Korea after the meeting ofGeneral-level officers held at the truce village of Panmunjom yesterday. Themeeting also discussed the joint excavation of the remains of US soldiers whowere killed during the Korean War. <o:p /></span></p>''<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"> </span></p>