GYERYONG, South Korea, Oct 1 (Reuters) - South Korean President Lee Jae Myung on Thursday called on North Korea to help restore trust and resume dialogue, a day after Seoul and Pyongyang traded barbs over a landmine incident that South Korea's military and the UN Command said amounted to an armistice violation.

President Lee Jae Myung on Thursday pledged to seek practical ways to reduce military tensions with North Korea, even as the two Koreas are at odds over mine blasts along the border.

Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s mention during a UN speech that Kyiv had sent two prisoners of war to South Korea has spiralled into a most unexpected crisis

South Korea’s spy agency says Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's recent disclosure of a secret transfer of two North Korean prisoners of war to South Korea was likely intended to gain public support for Ukraine.

The launches came just days after Pyongyang reasserted its status as a nuclear-armed state and rejected a U.N. resolution demanding it halt its nuclear activities.

South Korea has demanded an apology from Ukraine after President Zelenskyy revealed what Seoul says was supposed to be a secret transfer of two North Korean prisoners of war to South Korea.