Update at 17:30: this article has been updated to include South Korean government confirmation that propaganda loudspeakers have been removed from the inter-Korean border.

North Korea on Wednesday appeared to have removed a number of anti-South Korea propaganda articles from several official websites, Seoul said, amid signs of a broader de-escalation of mounting tensions between the two Koreas. 

In a move that coincided with news earlier in the day that leader Kim Jong Un had ordered the North Korean military to hold off on “military action plans” against the South, Seoul’s unification ministry confirmed that the articles — features on