South Korea is to suspend a 2018 joint military agreement with North Korea amid rising tensions in the region, the National Security Council (NSC) decided on Monday. The NSC had decided to suspend the agreement “until mutual trust between the two Koreas is restored,” the office of President Yoon Suk Yeol announced. A proposal on the suspension is to be put to the Cabinet on Tuesday. Suspension of the agreement, which was terminated by North Korea in November, will allow military exercises near the demarcation line separating the two countries to resume, according to the information provided. T…