North and South Korea agreed Wednesday to take a set of measures to ease military tension between them and further improve their ties, as their leaders met for their third summit talks this year.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un promised South Korean President Moon Jae In to visit Seoul later this year, the two Koreas said in a statement signed by the two on the second day of their summit in Pyongyang, dubbed the "September Pyongyang Joint Declaration."

"I asked Chairman Kim to visit Seoul and he promised to do so," Moon said at a joint news conference with Kim after their talks, adding that Kim will be the first-ever North Korean leader to visit the South Korean capital.

(Pyeongyang Press Corps)

Besides Kim's Seoul visit, the two leaders agreed to connect railways and roads between the two Koreas to develop their economy in a balanced manner and increase exchanges between their peoples, with work set to begin by year's end.

North and South Korea also agreed to resume operations at the Kaesong industrial park, just north of the border, and to restart a tourism project at Mt. Kumgang, a resort area on the North Korea's east coast near the border, once the right conditions are set.



Many South Korean manufacturing firms operated in the industrial park as part of an inter-Korean economic cooperation project until it was shut down in February 2016 amid worsening ties between the two Koreas.

The Mt. Kumgang tourism project was suspended in 2008 after a North Korean soldier shot dead a South Korean tourist after she allegedly strayed into an off-limits military zone while on an early morning stroll along the beach.

Top military officials of the two Koreas separately signed a set of agreements containing concrete measures that are aimed at easing military tension at the heavily fortified border.

(Pyeongyang Press Corps)

Among the agreements is removing guard posts set up by each Korea within 1 kilometer of the Military Demarcation Line dividing the two sides, before eventually withdrawing all within the Demilitarized Zone.

The Koreas also agreed to disarm the Joint Security Area in Panmunjeom, a border village split by the demarcation line and patrolled by South Korean and U.S. troops, on one side, and North Korean soldiers, on the other.

North and South Korea will also halt all drills near the demarcation line, starting on Nov. 1, in a bid to prevent any type of provocation from either side.

After announcing the outcome of their summit, Moon and Kim went to Okryugwan, a Pyongyang restaurant famous for its cold noodles.

In the first Moon-Kim summit back in April, the restaurant's head chef and other staff of the restaurant traveled to Panmunjeom with noodle-making machines to serve the dish as requested by Moon.