Kim Jong-un has suspended North Korea's plans for military action against South Korea, according to state media.
The reported move suggests the easing of a pressure campaign against its rival amid stalled nuclear talks with the US.
Pyongyang blew up an inter-Korean liaison office in its territory last week and threatened unspecified military action against the South after declaring relations were fully ruptured.
North Korea censured Seoul for a lack of progress in bilateral cooperation and failing to stop activists from floating anti-Pyongyang leaflets across the border.
But the state-run Korean Central News Agency has now said the ruling Workers' Party's Central Military Commission has decided to suspend plans for military action against the South brought up by the North's military leaders.
The KCNA did not specify why the decision was made.
The North has a history of dialling up pressure against the South when it fails to get what it wants from the US.
The North's recent steps came after months of frustration over Seoul's unwillingness to defy US-led sanctions over its nuclear weapons programme and restart inter-Korean economic projects that would breathe life into its broken economy.
Nuclear negotiations between Pyongyang and Washington began to falter after Mr Kim's second summit with US President Donald Trump last year in Vietnam, where the Americans rejected North Korea's demands for major sanctions relief in exchange for a partial surrender of its nuclear capabilities.
