North Korea's Kim meets IOC chief in Pyongyang
BEIJING, March 31 ― North Korea will take part in the next two Olympic Games in Japan and China, International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach said on Saturday after meeting North Korean leader Kim Jong-un in Pyongyang.
The South Korean and North Korean athletes walked as a joint team under one flag during the opening ceremony and the Games were seen to have eased tensions between the two nations.
He said Kim expressed his appreciation for the IOC's role in helping North Korea compete at the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics in South Korea last month.
The Winter Games triggered a fast-moving rapprochement that will see Kim sit down with the South's President Moon Jae-in in late April - with a U.S. summit with President Donald Trump planned for May.
President Bach was accompanied throughout the visit by the IOC Member from North Korea, Professor Ung Chang.
"They announced (to) us that they will definitely participate in the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 as well at the Olympic Winter Games Beijing 2022" and all editions of the Youth Olympic Games, Bach said.
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"We had a very fruitful meeting where it became clear that the supreme leader has a clear vision of the role that sport can play in a society with regard to education, with regard to health", Bach said.
Bach arrived in the country on Thursday and his visit, which concluded Saturday, was the result of an invitation extended by Pyongyang in January. He is the first foreign official to meet Kim since the North Korean leader returned earlier this week from a summit in Beijing with the Chinese president, Xi Jinping.
Kim told Bach that the Olympics had "opened a new chapter of concord between the north and the south", KCNA said.
He said he hoped that the IOC's relationship with the North's Olympic Committee would continue to develop favourably and expected cooperation in developing and improving sport in North Korea, the report added. In a packed agenda, President Bach also discussed the IOC's support for the athletes and sport in the country with the two Vice-Chairmen of the Workers' Party, Choe Hwi, who is also Chairman of the National Sports Guidance Committee, and Choe Ryong-hae, who is also Vice-Chairman of the State Affairs Commission of the DPRK.
North and South Korea plan to hold a summit on April 27. "In particular, the joint march sent a strong message of peace", President Bach said.
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