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North Korea 'likely' to join Winter Games, says Olympic representative

January 13, 2018 07:01·
South Korean and North Korean leaders will meet again for the first time since late 2015

South Korean and North Korean leaders will meet again for the first time since late 2015

"I very much want to see it work out between the two countries", Trump said at the presidential retreat at Camp David.

With the start of the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea just over a month away, political efforts are underway to try to ensure the Games will be free from political tensions involving North Korea.

He said the US would get involved "at the appropriate time".

Sceptics say Kim is trying to drive a wedge between the allies - the U.S. has 28,500 troops stationed in the South to defend it from the North - at a time when the worldwide community should remain united in putting pressure and sanctions on the North over its weapons programmes.

"Look, right now they're talking Olympics".

"Does anybody really believe that talks and dialogue would be going on between North and South Korea right now if I wasn't firm, strong and willing to commit our total "might" against the North", Trump tweeted.

Tillerson called the Koreas meeting a sign that the US-led campaign to isolate North Korea was working.

The Trump administration has agreed to delay joint military exercises with South Korea until after the Olympics.

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Both countries took steps after North Korean leader, Kim Jong Un, expressed on Monday his disposition to send a sports representation to the Winter Olympics.

South Korea and the U.S. made a decision to postpone their annual military exercise Key Resolve and Foul Eagle until after the Winter Olympics and Paralympic Games, which are to be held from February 9-25 and from March 9-18, respectively.

In his New Year address, Kim declared North Korea to be a nuclear power whose symbolic "red button" is ready and capable of striking the continental US.

"If something can come out of those talks, that would be a great thing for all of humanity, that would be a great thing for the world", he said. They have to stop testing. "What we're trying to do is make sure we don't repeat what's happened the last 25 years", she said.

"The agenda is on matters regarding Pyeongchang Olympic games as well as issues concerning improving inter-Korean ties", Baek Tae-hyun, a spokesperson for South Korea's Ministry of Unification, told reporters on January 5.

Tuesday's agenda in sorting out matters related to the Olympics includes whether the North's delegation would travel to the Games by land and whether the two Koreas will march under a unified Korean flag during the opening and closing ceremonies.

"It's an indication the pressure campaign is causing the leadership, the regime in North Korea, to begin to think about 'this can't go on forever, '" he was quoted as saying.

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