Articles by Jung Min-kyung
Jung Min-kyung
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NK hockey players, Olympic advance team arrive in S. Korea
North Korean women’s ice hockey players and an advance team of sports officials crossed the border to South Korea early Thursday to prepare for their country’s participation in the next month’s PyeongChang Winter Olympics. South Korea`s national head coach for the women`s ice hockey team Sarah Murray meets North Korean counterpart Park Chul-ho at Jincheon National Training Center on Jan. 25, 2018. (Yonhap)A total of 23 North Koreans arrived in the South via Gyeongui Line, or western land route
North Korea Jan. 25, 2018
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S. Korean delegation talks joint cultural event with NK
The two Koreas are discussing details of their joint cultural event, which they agreed to hold at North Korea’s Kumkangsan ahead of the PyeongChang Winter Olympics, Seoul’s Unification Ministry said Wednesday. South Korean K-pop singer Lee Hyori (left) and North Korean celebrity Cho Myung-ae (right) star alongside in a Samsung cellphone commercial filmed in 2015. Lee was a member of the now-disbanded girl group Fin K.L that performed in Pyongyang in 2000. (Yonhap)The news comes amid a South Kor
North Korea Jan. 24, 2018
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S. Korean team in NK to inspect venues for joint events, training
A twelve-member South Korean delegation crossed the border to enter North Korea on Monday to inspect venues where the joint cultural events and sports training will be held during the PyeongChang Winter Olympics. A twelve-member South Korean delegation talks to reporters at the Donghae Highway Transit Office at the East Sea Line before crossing the border to North Korea on Tuesday. (Yonhap)The team headed by Lee Joo-tae, director-general for the inter-Korean exchange and cooperation in the Mini
North Korea Jan. 23, 2018
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[Breaking] S. Korean inspection team sets off for NK
A 12-member South Korean delegation crossed the border to North Korea via Donghae Highway Transit Office at the East Sea Line at 10 a.m. Monday to inspect venues where joint South-North cultural events and sports training will be held during the PyeongChang Winter Olympics. A South Korean delegation arrives at the Donghae Highway Transit Office at the East Sea Line to cross the border to North Korea on Tuesday. (Yonhap)The South Korean delegation led by Lee Joo-tae, director-general for the inte
North Korea Jan. 23, 2018
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S. Korean officials to visit Kumgangsan, ski resort in NK
A 12-member South Korean delegation will head to North Korea early Tuesday to inspect venues where joint cultural and sports events will be held during the PyeongChang Winter Olympics. North Korean leader Kim Jong-un rides a ski lift at the Masikryong Ski Resort. (Yonhap)The three-day trip comes on the heels of a North Korean inspection team’s visit to South Korea to look at potential venues for its art troupe’s performances. The South’s delegation will be headed by Lee Joo-tae, director-general
North Korea Jan. 22, 2018
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NK advance team for PyeongChang art troupe inspects candidate sites in Seoul
A North Korean delegation inspecting venues for its art performances for next month’s PyeongChang Winter Olympics visited candidate sites Monday, on what is expected to be the final leg of its two-day stay here. The trip came as the two Koreas are working out the details on North Korea’s participation in the Winter Olympics. The two sides agreed that a 140-member North Korean art troupe, the Samjiyon Orchestra, will perform during the Olympics in Seoul and Gangneung, Gangwon Province.Prior to th
North Korea Jan. 22, 2018
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[Newsmaker] NK’s advance team for Olympic art performance due Saturday
North Korea has notified South Korea that it will dispatch an advance team over the weekend to inspect details for its art troupe’s performance during the PyeongChang Winter Olympics, Seoul’s Unification Ministry said Friday. Hyun Song-wol, leader of the Moranbong Band (left) and Kwon Hyok-bong, director of the Arts and Performance Bureau in North Korea`s Culture Ministry (right). YonhapAfter Monday’s working-level talks, the two Koreas agreed that a 140-member art troupe, including an 80-strong
North Korea Jan. 19, 2018
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Seoul to seek regular high-level talks with NK
South Korea will make efforts to hold regular inter-Korean high-level talks and offer humanitarian aid to North Koreans in need of assistance, the Unification Ministry said in a 2018 policy briefing. South Korea`s Unification Minister Cho Myoung-gyon (R) shakes hands with North Korean chief delegate Ri Son-gwon during their meeting at the border truce village of Panmunjeom in the Demilitarized Zone dividing the two Koreas on Jan. 9, 2018. (Yonhap)The two Koreas held high-level talks on Jan. 9,
North Korea Jan. 19, 2018
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Koreas to finalize NK’s PyeongChang activities with IOC
With the PyeongChang Winter Olympics just around the corner, both Koreas are gearing up to finalize the agreements reached between the two. The South Korean delegates on Thursday departed for Lausanne, Switzerland, where they are to attend talks hosted by the International Olympic Committee with a goal to finalize Wednesday’s inter-Korean agreements. South Korean President Moon Jae-in (left) presents mascots of 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympic Games to Thomas Bach, president of the International
North Korea Jan. 18, 2018
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Koreas to march under unification flag at Olympics
The two Koreas have agreed to jointly march under the “Korean Unification” flag at the opening ceremony of the PyeongChang Olympics next month, Seoul’s Unification Ministry said Wednesday, after the two Koreas sat down to discuss the North’s participation in the games. South and North Korean athletes march under the unification flag during the 2006 Turin Winter Olympics opening ceremony in Italy. (AP-Yonhap)They also agreed to form a unified women’s ice hockey team for the Olympics. The news cam
North Korea Jan. 17, 2018
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NK to send Olympic athletes via western land route, offers to participate in PyeongChang Paralympics
North Korea has asked South Korea to allow its delegation to cross the border via a land route in the western region for its participation in the PyeongChang Olympics, Seoul’s Ministry of Unification said Wednesday, as the two Koreas sat down to work out key agenda items for the North’s participation in the upcoming Winter Games. This photo, provided by Seoul`s Unification Ministry on Wednesday, shows working-level talks between the two Koreas on the North`s participation in the PyeongChang Wint
North Korea Jan. 17, 2018
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Koreas to tackle thorny Olympic issues
The two Koreas will hold working-level talks Wednesday, where remaining key issues on North Korea’s participation in the PyeongChang Olympics are expected to be discussed. South Korea‘s Vice Unification Minister Chun Hae-sung. (Yonhap)North Korea agreed to hold two working-level meetings this week -- on Monday and Wednesday -- after the South offered Friday to hold a formal meeting on the North’s participation in next month’s PyeongChang Olympics. The series of meetings started with inter-Korea
North Korea Jan. 16, 2018
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Two Koreas may march under unification flag for Olympic opening
South Korea has agreed to North Korea’s proposal of holding working-level talks Wednesday at the truce village of Panmunjeom to further discuss its participation in the PyeongChang Olympics, the South’s Unification Ministry said Monday. Seoul’s sports minister also said if the two sides agree on a joint entrance at the opening ceremony, the athletes would march under the “Korean Unification” flag -- a white flag with a blue shape of the Korean Peninsula in the center. The North’s move, which cam
North Korea Jan. 15, 2018
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140-member NK orchestra to perform in S. Korea
North Korea will send a 140-member orchestra to South Korea for the PyeongChang Olympics, Seoul’s Unification Ministry said Monday. “North Korea will dispatch an art troupe formed of 140 members of the Samjiyon Orchestra,” said a joint press statement released by the ministry. North Korea's delegation members sit during an inter-Korean talks to discuss Pyongyang's participation in the upcoming Winter Olympics at the truce village of Panmunjeom on Monday. South Korea(Yonhap)The announcement came
North Korea Jan. 15, 2018
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Two Koreas to talk PyeongChang on Wednesday, may march under ‘Korean Unification’ flag at Olympics opening
South Korea has agreed to North Korea’s proposal of holding working-level talks Wednesday at the truce village of Panmunjeom to further discuss its participation in the PyeongChang Olympics, the South’s Unification Ministry said Monday. Kwon Hyok-bong, director of the performing arts bureau at the culture ministry and the North‘s chief delegate, left, and Lee Woo-sung, a senior official at the Seoul‘s culture ministry and the South‘s chief delegate, step into a meeting room in Tongilgagk in the
North Korea Jan. 15, 2018
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