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Pyongyang Suggests Sending Performance Group to Olympics - Reports

Pyongyang Suggests Sending Performance Group to Olympics - Reports

The statement not only covers the North's participation in the Olympics, it also says that the two sides "agreed to collaborate in facilitating reconciliation and unity by easing military tensions, and to establish a peaceful environment", including by holding military talks.

All those developments have been taking place since North Korean leader Kim Jong Un struck a surprisingly conciliatory note on relations with South Korea in his New Year's address and expressed Pyongyang's willingness to join the Olympics.

North Korea has yet to comment on the South's offer, which is in the spirit of the original deal and even goes beyond it.

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The North said it will inform the South of a date to discuss sending athletes and a cheering squad to the PyeongChang Olympics at a later time.

The first inter-Korean dialogue in over two years came after the North's leader Kim Jong-un used his New Year's Day address to declare Pyongyang's interest in participating in the Winter Olympics at the South Korean venue of PyeongChang from February 9. The two teams even played each other, with the South defeating the North 3-0 in division play. The North has yet to respond to that offer as well.

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