Seoul — North Korea said during rare talks with the South on Tuesday that it would send a delegation of high-ranking officials, athletes and a cheering squad to the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics in South Korea next month, according to a senior South Korean official. Seoul proposed inter-Korean military talks to reduce tension on the Korean peninsula and a reunion of family members in time for February’s Lunar New Year holiday, said South Korean Vice-Unification Minister Chun Hae-sung. South Korea also proposed that athletes from the two Koreas march together at the opening ceremony of the games, and other joint activities between the two nations during the Winter Olympics, Chun told reporters outside the first formal talks between North and South Korea in more than two years. The talks are being closely watched by world leaders eager for any sign of a reduction in tension on the Korean peninsula amid rising fear over North Korea’s missile launches and development of nuclear weapons, i...
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