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| North Korea has accepted an offer to attend high-level talks next week, South Korean media have said. | |
| The meeting, on 9 January, will focus on finding a way for North Korean athletes to attend the Winter Olympic Games in South Korea in February. | |
| North Korean leader Kim Jong-un said this week that sending a delegation to the games would be "a good opportunity to show unity of the people". | |
| The meeting is expected to be held at Panmunjom, on the border. | |
| The so-called peace village, in the heavily guarded demilitarised zone (DMZ), is where the two sides have historically held talks. | |
| South Korea's President Moon Jae-in has previously said sees the Winter Olympics as a "groundbreaking chance" to improve relations between the Koreas, two countries still technically at war. | |
| Earlier this week, in a small sign of progress, North Korea restored a telephone hotline at their mutual border, to enable the first contact about talks to be made. | |
| However, the South Korean Unification Ministry official told AFP that the acceptance of the invitation to talks was sent by fax on Friday morning. | |
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