NORTH and South Korea will pull back loudspeakers lined up along their border for blaring out propaganda against each other, the South’s President Moon Jae In said today as relations between the states continued to warm.

Mr Moon dismissed talk of his being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his summit with Northern leader Kim Jong Un on Friday, which ended with both sides pledging to work towards a peace treaty to formally end the 1950-53 Korean war.

“President [Donald] Trump can take the Nobel prize,” he said. “The only thing we need is peace.”

The summit agreed to work for a “nuclear-free Korean peninsula” and Mr Kim has offered to allow international observers to watch the country’s nuclear facilities being dismantled.

But Pyongyang has traditionally argued that “nuclear-free” ought also to involve the removal of the peninsula from the US “nuclear umbrella.”

US national security adviser John Bolton indicated today this was unlikely, declining to give the North a commitment that the US would not invade in return for disarmament.