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17:34, 27-Feb-2018
DPRK to send athletes to Paralympics next month
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The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) agreed on Tuesday to send athletes to South Korea on March 7 for the Winter Paralympics, Seoul's Unification Ministry said.
The agreement was reached after working-level talks between the two sides, held earlier in the day at Tongilgak, a DPRK building in the truce village of Panmunjom that straddles South Korea and the DPRK.
The Winter Paralympics is scheduled for March 9-18 in South Korea's eastern county of PyeongChang, where the Winter Olympics was held earlier this month.
The DPRK had dispatched athletes, cheerleaders and artists to the Winter Olympics, while for the Paralympic Games, the country planned to send an athletic delegation, including athletes.
The DPRK athletes would travel to South Korea via land route two days before the opening of the Paralympics.
The ice appears to be melting on the Korean Peninsula after the DPRK's participation in the winter sports event. For the Olympic opening ceremony, athletes from the two sides marched together under a unified Korean flag.
South Korea and the DPRK fielded a joint women's ice hockey team, the first inter-Korean Olympic team.
Source(s): Xinhua News Agency