A team of athletes from both Koreas came down south of the border on Thursday.<br />South Korean athletes,... after wrapping up their two-day training there,... and a dozen other North Korean players, invited to take part in the PyeongChang Olympics.<br />Ji Myung-kil reports. <br /> A delegation of 31 South Korean skiers was flown back home from North Korea Thursday on a chartered flight.<br />They were joined by 32 North Koreans, led by the North's vice sports minister.<br />Among them are 10 athletes who will compete in PyeongChang 2018, including a figure skating duo, two short track speed skaters and three athletes each in cross-country and alpine skiing.<br /> <br />Twelve members of the North Korean women's ice hockey team arrived in the South last week to hold joint training with their South Korean counterparts.<br /> A total of 22 North Korean athletes will compete across five disciplines, making this the largest North Korean delegation in Winter Olympic history.<br /><br /> On the last day of the two-day training Thursday, the South Korean alpine and cross-country skiers held joint training sessions including friendly races at the North's Masikryong Ski Resort.<br />There are ten slopes at the resort with a total length of nearly 18-kilometers.<br />The luxurious Masikryong Ski Resort opened in December of 2013 which took less than a year to build after the North's leader Kim Jong-un ordered the construction in February of the same year.<br /> Kim who is known to have been educated in Switzerland is rumored to be keenly interested in skiing.<br />Ji Myung-kil, Arirang News. <br />
