North Korea to Send Olympic Athletes to South Korea, in Breakthrough<br />In talks held at the border village of Panmunjom, North Korean negotiators quickly accepted South Korea’s request to send a<br />large delegation to the Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea, next month, according to South Korean news reports.<br />SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea agreed on Tuesday to send athletes to February’s Winter Olympics in South Korea, a symbolic<br />breakthrough after months of escalating tensions over the North’s rapidly advancing nuclear and missile programs.<br />While the focus of Tuesday’s talks was the Olympics, South Korean officials were also expected to explore whether<br />North Korea is interested in talks with the United States to ease tensions over its nuclear arms programs.<br />In Tuesday’s talks, South Korea also suggested that the two Korean teams march together during the opening ceremony of the<br />Olympics, Chun Hae-sung, the vice minister of unification, told reporters in Panmunjom after the morning’s negotiations.<br />8, 2018<br />North Korea has agreed to send athletes to the 2018 Winter Games in South Korea,<br />but the Olympics have long been a window into geopolitics between the two sides.<br />South Korea hopes that the talks at Panmunjom will lead to other moves to ease tensions, like temporary reunions<br />of elderly people in both Koreas who have been separated from family members since the Korean War.
