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North Korea set to send athletes to South Korea's Winter Games

NORTH KOREA is set to send a delegation of athletes and performers to next month’s Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang after breakthrough talks today.

After meeting their North Korean counterparts for the first time in two years, officials from South Korea indicated an agreement has been reached for the North to attend the Games.

South Korea’s vice unification minister Chun Hae Sung said North Korea “proposed dispatching a high-level delegation of athletes, supporters, art performers, observers, a taekwondo demonstration team and journalists” to the Games.

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