The two sides appear to be skating on thin ice after North Korea pulled out of a cultural event with South Korea ahead of the Winter Olympics,... but another joint event is scheduled to take place from today. <br />South Korea is pushing forward with the projects it planned with the North by sending some of its athletes north of the border on Wednesday for joint-skiing training.<br />It seems that trip will happen... because aside from the one cancelation, the rest of the two Koreas schedule is on track. <br />Ji Myung-kil has our top story. <br /> South Korea will send non-Olympic skiers to the North's Masikryong Ski Resort for two days of joint training as part of a series of planned events ahead of the Winter Olympics in South Korea.<br />A group of inspectors from the South visited the venues in the North last week to look around the facilities, the airport and road conditions.<br />The South Korean skiers will take a chartered flight to the North's Kalma Airport, which is around 45 minutes away from the Masikryong Ski Resort.<br /><br />The joint events during the PyeongChang Games are seen as a thawing of ties between the two Koreas.<br /> However, a telegram from the North late Monday reportedly blamed "biased" and "insulting" media coverage from the South on the North's planned events for the Olympics.<br />The North was also angry at South Korean media reports of a possible military parade in Pyongyang on February 8th, a day before the opening ceremony of the Winter Games.<br /> South Korea's unification ministry said the North's sudden decision was regrettable adding that the North should uphold all the remaining agreements that have been made.<br />Those are the art performances and taekwondo demonstration.<br /> The North is also sending hundreds of delegates, cheerleaders and performers to the South over the course of the Olympics.<br />The inter-Korean talks which resulted in the agreement came after tensions on the Korean peninsula reached their highest point in decades.<br /> But there have been concerns that the links between the Koreas could breach international sanctions on North Korea's nuclear and missile programs.<br /><br /> "Providing hard cash is not allowed. But apart from that, we can practically provide any conveniences they might need as the U.S. has welcomed the North's participation as well."<br /><br /> Providing cash payments to the North's regime is banned under UN sanctions.<br />South Korea earlier said it would not pay the fees for using the North's airport and airspace.<br />Ji Myung-kil, Arirang News. <br />
