Pyongyang plans to send music band to Winter Olympics in South Korea
South Korea will demand answers from the North which has avoided concrete answers to direct requests, just weeks ahead of the world's best winter sport athletes descending on the region.
140 member band will be performing in Gangneung and SeoulNorth Korea has agreed to send the Samjiyon Band, an orchestra with more than 140 members, to South Korea to perform in Seoul and in Gangneung, a city in Gangwon Province, during the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics.
Heavily guarded talks will be held at Tongilgak, a North Korean building in the truce village of Panmunjom.
The Rodong Sinmun article stressed the importance of "easing the acute military tension" between the North and the South, and of "creating a peaceful environment" on the Korean Peninsula to produce a "climate favorable for national reconciliation and reunification".
An ex girlfriend of Kim's will also be in attendance, as the leader of the all-female Moranbong Bandset up by Kim.
Hyon, put on the ruling Workers' Party of Korea's Central Committee past year, was once rumoured to have been executed.
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The North said it would send a director of its arts and performance bureau, a conductor, the leader of North Korea's orchestra and an orchestra administrator. "In upcoming preparations, we will strive so that the performances by the North Korean band during the Pyeongchang Olympics help improve inter-Korean relations and restore cultural homogeneity", the Ministry said.
Pyongyang, capital of the north and Seoul in the South could not form an arrangement since Kim's regime refused to give an immediate answer. Prior to this, North Korea sent its largest delegation to the South for the Asian Games that were held in Busan in the summer of 2002.
Kim has threatened to use nuclear bombs against mainland USA and has labelled Trump an "aggressor".
North and South Korean athletes have never jointly competed in the Olympics; the closest they've come is in 2000, 2004 and 2006, when delegations marched together during the opening ceremony.
Separately, the International Olympic Committee has proposed a meeting on January 20 at the IOC headquarters in Lausanne, Switzerland, involving the rival Koreas to discuss North Korea's participation in Pyeongchang.
Monday's meeting between the North and South will reportedly include talks of the North's art troupe heading to the Olympics.
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