The move was part of a deal announced earlier on Tuesday following marathon talks. The broadcasts included news from South Korea, Korean pop songs as well as other materials deemed "harmful" to the North Korean state.
In a carefully crafted, though vague, piece of diplomacy, Pyongyang expressed "regret" on Tuesday that two South Korean soldiers were maimed in a recent land mine blast Seoul blamed on the North.
The two countries also agreed to work towards a resumption next month of reunions for families separated by the 1950-53 Korean War, National Security Adviser Kim Kwan-jin, the South's lead negotiator, told reporters.
The resumption of the reunions could happen at the end of September, to coincide with the harvest festival in South Korea.
Bloom Gist's correspondent said that with the deal, "both sides could have something to gain", including an opening for continued talks in the coming days and weeks, and renewed economic cooperation.
Artillery exchange
The negotiations in the border truce village of Panmunjom had played out against a dangerous military stand-off, which triggered a rare artillery exchange over the border last week.
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un ordered his frontline troops onto a war-footing on Friday while Seoul warned that it would "retaliate harshly" to any acts of aggression.
The talks had begun early on Saturday evening, shortly after the passing of a North Korean deadline for Seoul to halt its propaganda broadcasts or face military action.
The first session of the Panmunjom talks lasted about 10 hours and the second session about 33 hours.
During the talks at Panmunjom, the North Korean negotiators raised the issue of restarting joint tours to the North's scenic Diamond Mountain resort, said the official from Seoul's unification ministry.
Source: Al Jazeera
