The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) and South Korea have agreed at the just-ended inter-Korean dialogue to hold separate military talks, with the DPRK also consenting to send a delegation¹ to the 2018 Winter Olympics to be hosted by Seoul next month, Seoul's Unification Ministry² said Tuesday.

 

韩国统一部周二表示，在刚刚结束的朝韩会谈上，双方同意举行独立军事会谈，朝鲜同意派代表团参加下月举行的首尔2018冬奥会。

 

The senior-level, inter-governmental dialogue between the two Koreas, the first in about two years, was held in the truce³ village of Panmunjom, a breakthrough in improving inter-Korean relations and building peace on the Korean Peninsula.

 

After the talks, the two sides adopted a three-point joint⁴ statement, agreeing to cooperate with each other for the 2018 Winter Olympics and Paralympic Games to be held in South Korea's eastern county of Pyeongchang in February and March respectively.

 

Under the agreement, the DPRK will send to the events its National Olympic Committee delegation, athletes, cheering squads⁵, performing arts teams, press corps⁶ and demonstration⁷ teams for taekwondo, the traditional martial⁸ art of the two Koreas.

 

South Korea promised to provide accommodation for the DPRK Olympic delegations⁹ and agreed to hold work-level talks on the DPRK's participation¹⁰ in the winter sports event.

 

The communications channel in the liaison¹¹ offices of the two Koreas in Panmunjom, which sits in the middle of the heavily guarded inter-Korean land border, was restored last week, making direct dialogue between the two governments possible.

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