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The North's participation in next month's
Winter Olympics in South Korea's Pyeongchang has been
interpreted as an apparent diplomatic breakthrough after months
of high tension over the North's nuclear and missile program.
North Korea sent a statement on Saturday saying it would send
the delegation by a land route on Sunday, and the schedule
during the visit could be carried out as previously agreed, the
Unification Ministry said in a statement.
The South Korean government will review North Korea's suggestion
and respond, it added.
A seven-member North Korean team had been scheduled to visit on
Saturday to check venues for the performances, the Ministry
previously said. Late on Friday North Korea canceled the visit,
originally scheduled for Saturday.
At the Games, the two Koreas will field a combined women's ice
hockey team and march together under one flag, Seoul said
earlier this week after a new round of talks amid a thaw in
cross-border ties.
Meanwhile, North Korea accused the United Nations (UN) Secretary
General of bias over its nuclear tests and ballistic missile
launches for not also taking the United States to task on its
own nuclear program, and criticized the United States and other
nations for calling North Korea's nuclear program "violations of
resolutions".
Pyongyang said the remarks it took issue with were in the vein
of "the U.S. desperately trying to reverse the trend of detente
and improvement of inter-Korean relations," seemingly referring
to the breakthrough surrounding the Winter Olympics, according
to a statement from the Permanent Mission of the DPRK to the UN.
(Reporting by Joyce Lee; Additional reporting by Haejin Choi;
Editing by Michael Perry and John Stonestreet)
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