{"id":59873,"date":"2018-01-09T19:24:30","date_gmt":"2018-01-09T19:24:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/airforcetimes\/uncategorized\/2018\/01\/09\/north-korea-taking-part-in-south-korean-olympics-after-talks\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T11:28:47","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T11:28:47","slug":"north-korea-taking-part-in-south-korean-olympics-after-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/airforcetimes\/flashpoints\/2018\/01\/09\/north-korea-taking-part-in-south-korean-olympics-after-talks\/","title":{"rendered":"North Korea taking part in South Korean Olympics after talks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">SEOUL, South Korea \u2014 The rival Koreas moved toward reducing their bitter animosity Tuesday during rare talks, with North Korea agreeing to take part in next month\u2019s Winter Olympics in South Korea. The countries also agreed to hold more discussions on easing tension along their border and to reopen a military hotline.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The first meeting of its kind between the nations in about two years was arranged after North Korean leader Kim Jong Un made an abrupt push for improved ties with South Korea following a year of escalating tensions with the outside world over his expanding nuclear and missile programs. Critics say Kim may be trying to divide Seoul and Washington in a bid to weaken international pressure and sanctions on the North.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In comments that appeared to back up those critical views, chief North Korean delegate Ri Son Gwon said his country\u2019s nuclear weapons are aimed at the United States, not South Korea. He made the comments while complaining about what he called inaccurate South Korean media reports that he said Tuesday\u2019s talks dealt with North Korea\u2019s nuclear disarmament.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cAll our state-of-the-art strategic weapons like atomic bombs, hydrogen bombs and intercontinental ballistic rockets are completely targeting the United States. They are not targeting our compatriots\u201d in the South, Ri said, according to media footage from the border village of Panmunjom, where the talks were held.<\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/militarytimes\/flashpoints\/2018\/01\/09\/venue-for-korea-talks-is-potential-flash-point-inside-border\/\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__media\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"196\" src=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP18009269802753.jpg.jpg?w=300\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__content\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"smg-interstitial-link__kicker\">Related<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"smg-interstitial-link__title\">Venue for Korea talks is potential flash point inside border<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">The two Koreas\u2019 rare high-profile talks Tuesday took place at the jointly controlled area inside the world\u2019s most heavily fortified border \u2014 the same place where North Korean soldiers recently sprayed bullets at a colleague who was making a daring dash for freedom.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\t\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Despite Ri\u2019s comments, the agreements were still seen to be a positive move. Chief South Korean delegate Cho Myoung-gyon described the accords as a \u201cfirst step toward the development of South-North relations\u201d when he briefed reporters about the meeting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ri read what he called a joint statement after the talks, under which the two Koreas agreed to \u201cactively cooperate\u201d in the Olympics to \u201cenhance the prestige of the Korean people.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He said North Korea will send a delegation of officials, athletes, cheerleaders and journalists to the Feb. 9-25 games in Pyeongchang, South Korea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">South Korea will provide necessary services to the North Korean delegation, Ri said, adding that the two countries will hold follow-up working-level talks on Olympic cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI see North Korea\u2019s participation in the Pyeongchang Games will provide us with a chance to reduce tension on the Korean Peninsula,\u201d said Cho, whose official title is unification minister.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"631\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP18009056017453.jpg.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-97876\" srcset=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP18009056017453.jpg.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP18009056017453.jpg.jpg?resize=300,185 300w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP18009056017453.jpg.jpg?resize=768,473 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">South Korean Unification Minister Cho Myoung-gyon, right, shakes hands with the head of North Korean delegation Ri Son Gwon before their meeting at the Panmunjom in the Demilitarized Zone in Paju, South Korea, Tuesday, Jan. 9, 2018. (Korea Pool\/Yonhap via AP)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">North Korea is not a winter sports power, and two of its figure skaters, Ryom Tae Ok and Kim Ju Sik, earlier became the only North Korean athletes to qualify for the games before the North missed a confirmation deadline. The International Olympic Committee said Monday it has \u201ckept the door open\u201d for North Korea to take part in the games.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sports ties between the two countries mirror their rocky political relationship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">During an earlier era of inter-Korean detente, athletes from the North and South paraded together at international sports events such as the Olympics and fielded a unified Korean team. The government of current South Korean President Moon Jae-had wanted the two Koreas to agree to similar reconciliatory steps in Pyeongchang.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">North Korea boycotted the 1986 Asian Games and the 1988 Summer Olympics, both held in Seoul, amid Cold War rivalry. One year before the 1988 Games, a South Korean passenger plane exploded, killing all 115 people aboard, and a captured North Korean agent told South Korean investigators that she bombed the jetliner at the order of North Korean leaders who wanted to disrupt the Seoul Olympics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In another key accord Tuesday, North Korea also agreed to hold military talks aimed at reducing animosity along the border and restore a military hotline communication channel with South Korea, according to Cho.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The restoration of the hotline was the second in kind in about a week. All major inter-Korean communication channels had been shut down over the North\u2019s nuclear program in recent years. But North Korea reopened one channel last week as signs emerged of improving ties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Cho said South Korea also called for talks at an early date to discuss denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula to promote peace. He said the two Koreas would continue high-level talks but didn\u2019t give a date for the next meeting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Earlier Tuesday, South Korean officials said they also suggested resuming temporary reunions of families separated by war, but the joint statement didn\u2019t mention this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The countries have a long history of failing to follow through with rapprochement accords. In 2015, negotiators met for nearly 40 hours before announcing a deal to pull back from a military standoff caused by land mine blasts that maimed two South Korean soldiers. But animosities flared again several months later after the North\u2019s fourth nuclear test.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The meeting\u2019s venue, Panmunjom, is the only place on the border where North and South Korean soldiers are just meters (feet) away from each other. In November, a North Korean soldier defected to the South across Panmunjom amid gunfire from his comrades. He was hit five times but survived.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An agreement on the North\u2019s Olympic participation had been widely expected before the talks, but the Koreas appeared to remain sharply at odds over how to improve their overall ties.<\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/training-sim\/2018\/01\/04\/mattis-korea-drill-pause-a-logistics-matter-not-a-political-one\/\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__media\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"180\" src=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/MIL-poll-cover-next-war.jpg.jpg?w=300\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__content\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"smg-interstitial-link__kicker\">Related<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"smg-interstitial-link__title\">Mattis: Korea drill pause a logistics matter, not a political one<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">U.S. and South Korean military drills will be on pause until at least March 18. But why the change?<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\t\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">North Korea was expected to demand rewards in return for South Korea\u2019s proposal of family reunions, such as a halt to South Korean propaganda broadcasts and a scaling back or halting of military drills with the U.S., observers say. But it wasn\u2019t known if the North made such a demand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Suspension of the military drills would be unacceptable for Seoul because it would seriously undermine its alliance with its chief ally, the United States, which wants to put more pressure on North Korea. The North views the drills as a rehearsal for an invasion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">U.S. President Donald Trump on Saturday expressed hope for progress from the talks and said he was open to talking with Kim himself. But U.N. 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