The two Koreas resumed the dismantlement of propaganda facilities near their shared border on Monday.

The work had stalled amid fraying inter-Korean ties weeks after the two sides struck a landmark tension-easing accord in June of last year. The two Koreas had agreed to cease loudspeaker broadcasts and dismantle propaganda billboards along the 248-kilometer Demilitarized Zone under an agreement.

But last Wednesday at the third round of a working-group meeting for an envisioned cross-border defense chiefs' talks, South and North agreed to resume the work and complete it by August 13th.

The South Korean military began dismantling the facilities on Monday, ahead of the North's own work on its side of the border.

Both sides will exchange lists of the facilities to be removed on August 6th and plan to check up on each other's finished work at the next round of working-level military talks on August 12th.