North Korea's Ceremonial Leader Kim Yong Nam to Visit South Korea for Olympics
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North Korea's ceremonial leader Kim Yong Nam will make an unprecedented visit to South Korea this week and attend the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, DW reports.
He will be the most senior North Korean official ever to visit the South. The announcement has raised hopes for high-level inter-Korean talks during the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics.
Kim, president of the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly, would lead a 22-strong delegation that is expected to arrive in South Korea on Friday for a three-day trip, Seoul's Unification Ministry said in a statement on Sunday.
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