The development today was the latest in a series of contacts between the two hostile neighbors, who face each other across a heavily armed border where thousands of American troops are deployed.

In response, North Korea raised its military alert status, heightening tension along the heavily armed border.

Two-seat armed border patrol aircraft, powered by a 300-hp Zhuzhou Huosai HS-6D radial piston engine.

The prison's corridors and yards, carrying names like "The Ranch" and "The Tank" are like neighborhoods, but with armed borders.

It has canceled previously scheduled reunions of families separated by the heavily armed border between the two countries and sharpened its tone toward the Bush administration.

Mr. Kim's death offers an opportunity for change and an easing of the hostility across the most heavily armed border in the world, the Demilitarized Zone separating North and South Korea.

Workers have begun the dangerous demining job on the 12 miles of the severed route that run just beyond this town, the end of the southern line, through the demilitarized zone toward a heavily armed border.

They are separated by an armed border.

At the least, the South Koreans are seeking to avoid a conflict at what is the most heavily armed border in the world.

A formula that led to a balance of tanks along the massively armed border between East and West Germany, for example, might not address imbalances on the Western alliance's southern flank in Turkey.