The Democratic People's Republic of Korea has proposed to hold military talks with South Korea, Yonhap news agency quoted military authorities in the South as reporting on Thursday.

Pyongyang Wednesday suggested the working-level talks via a military communications line at the border truce village of Panmunjom, according to Yonhap.

In a related development, on September 8, the DPRK released the South Korean fishing boat "Daeseung 55" and its crewmembers that it captured last month for violating the DPRK's exclusive economic zone. Pyongyang also offered to hold a new round of reunions for separated families and accepted rice and cement for flood victims in the DPRK from Seoul.