North Korea

North and South Korea have agreed to form a unified team for certain sports at this year’s edition of the Asian Games in Jakarta and Palembang, Indonesia.

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has pledged to support peace talks between North and South Korea.

North and South Korea will compete as one nation during the semi-final of the ongoing World Team Table Tennis Championships in Halmstad, Sweden after informing organisers that they did not want to face off against each other in the quarter-finals.

Seven South Korean sports federations are considering the prospect of forming joint teams with North Korea for the 2018 Asian Games following the landmark summit meeting held between the two countries on Friday, but football is unlikely to be one of them.

The International Olympic Committee has said North Korea has committed to competing in the next two editions of both the Olympic Games and Youth Olympic Games (YOG) following a meeting between Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un and IOC president Thomas Bach.

The International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) has said that the women’s winter Olympic Games tournament could expand to include more teams at Beijing 2022, while the sport’s global governing body also talked up the possibility of a return for the unified Korean team.

The Governor of Gangwon Province, where the 2018 winter Olympic Games are currently being held in Pyeongchang, has said a joint bid for the 2021 Asian winter Games (AWG) with North Korea is under consideration.

The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) has today (Friday) formally invited North Korea to participate in its first winter Paralympic Games, as Russia outlined the team that it hopes will compete in Pyeongchang.

South Korea has maintained that future winter Olympics projects with North Korea will go ahead as planned despite Pyongyang pulling the plug on a joint cultural performance scheduled for next week.

North Korea will compete at the 2018 winter Olympic Games in three sports, including a historic joint women’s ice hockey team with South Korea, following an agreement reached with the International Olympic Committee (IOC). 

South and North Korea have today (Wednesday) reached an agreement to field a joint women’s ice hockey team at the 2018 winter Olympic Games along with marching together under a “unified Korea” flag at the opening ceremony, while the North has also committed to its first winter Paralympic Games.

North Korea has requested that working talks on taking its athletes to the 2018 winter Olympic Games be held on Wednesday at the truce village of Panmunjom, as South Korean officials maintained women’s ice hockey is the only sport being considered for a possible joint team at next month’s event.

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has said it will stage a meeting on January 20 to determine the exact nature of North Korea’s participation at the 2018 winter Olympic Games.

South Korean officials have said a North Korean delegation will attend the 2018 winter Olympic Games as landmark talks between the two countries commenced today (Tuesday).

North Korea is “likely to participate” at the 2018 winter Olympic Games in Pyeongchang, according to the country’s International Olympic Committee (IOC) member.

North Korea has accepted an offer to attend talks with South Korea next week about the country’s participation in the 2018 winter Olympic Games.