South Korea will maintain a two-track approach of pressure and dialogue in dealing with North Korea, Cheong Wa Dae said Thursday.
  

"The two major pillars of our policy is retaliation against provocations and a persuasion effort for peaceful cooperation," presidential spokesman Min Kyung-wook said.
  

The comments illustrated South Korea's latest efforts to engage with North Korea to keep peace on the divided peninsula and eventually push the isolated country to join the international community.
  

President Park Geun-hye recently vowed to continue to apply pressure on North Korea and to make efforts for the resumption of dialogue.
  

The two Koreas last held high-level talks in February 2014.
  

She made the comments after South Korea accused North Korea of planting landmines on the southern side of the demilitarized zone that separates the two Koreas earlier this week.
 

Two South Korean staff sergeants were severely injured as they stepped on the landmines during their patrol mission on Aug. 4. (Yonhap)