North and South Korea convened in a border village and agreed to meet on Thursday, July 14, to discuss North Korea's participation in the 2014 Asian Games that Seoul will host.

According to Kim Eui-do, Unification Ministry spokesperson, the rival Koreas have agreed to meet this Thursday to discuss North Korea's plans to send cheerleaders and athletes to the annual event.

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Reports said that Pyongyang sees the sporting event as an opportunity to reduce hostilities between the two nations.

Simultaneous with the announcement, North Korea launched two-artillery shells near the South Korean sea border followed by a test-fire of two ballistic missiles a day before.

Recent reports indicated that the North have been suggesting other measures to obtain peace with the South including the end of mutual slandering and scaling down regular South Korea-U.S. military exercises.

However, Seoul has denied such proposals and said that the North should take the first move towards peace by disarming their nuclear weapons.

For some analysts, the conflicting actions indicated that the North will continue to boost its defense unless South Korea and the U.S lessen their interaction.

The two Koreas have been engaged in a long political and military standoffs. The two nations have a long-standing conflict since the Korean War broke out in the early 1950s when the United Nations, under U.S. leadership, backed the capitalist South against the communist North in a civil war. North Korea found an ally in the biggest country in Asia when the People's Republic of China came to their aid.

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