South Korea says North Korea agrees to join the Winter Olympics

A South Korean official said North Korea has proposed sending a high-profile delegation to the Winter Olympics this month. Later in Pyeongchang.The proposal was made on Tuesday in the first round of confrontational talks between rival nations. Bitter over the last two years. South Korea's deputy unification minister, Chun Hae-sung, told reporters in Seoul that North Korea Requested to send delegation of senior officials, players and women's teams shouting encourages the players to the Games. Will begin on February 9 Feb.Chun Hae-sung also said South Korea had called for another round of family gatherings Separated since the civil war from 1950 to 1953, dividing North Korea into a dictatorship from South Korea Democracy will take place on New Year's Day Lunar New in the next month. He also said Seoul has asked the two sides to play together at the opening ceremony of the Games in Pyeongchang.The talks took place in the village of Panmunjom, the so-called "Peace Village" along the border where the 1953 armies were established. The sign, which ended the fighting in the Korean War, is officially in effect between the two countries.