North Korea to send athletes, high-level delegation to Winter Olympics
Tehran (KNA) - North Korea has agreed to send a delegation to next month's Winter Olympics in South Korea, the first notable breakthrough to come out of a face-to-face meeting Tuesday between the neighboring nations.
In talks, held at the border village of Panmunjom or "truce village," in the Korean peninsula's heavily fortified demilitarized zone, North Korea negotiators agreed to send a "high-level delegation" comprising athletes, a cheering squad, an art troupe, a visitors' group, a Taekwondo demonstration team and a press corps, South Korean Unification Ministry spokesman Chun Hae-sung told reporters in Seoul.
Chun also announced that both sides plan to re-open a military hotline on the western Korean Peninsula.
Source: CNN