The two Koreas march behind their own flags as the curtain falls on two weeks of competition against a backdrop of diplomatic manoeuvring at the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics.
South Korea's efforts to bring the North to its Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang next month are provoking a backlash among its own people, with accusations that Seoul risks turning the Games into a "Pyongyang Olympics".
North Korean delegates arrive in South Korea to inspect venues and prepare cultural performances for next month's Winter Olympics, in the first visit by Pyongyang officials to the capitalist South for four years.
North Korea say during rare talks with the South that it will send a delegation to the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics in South Korea next month and Seoul said it was prepared to lift some sanctions temporarily to facilitate the visit if needed.
North Korea agrees to hold official talks with the South next week, the first in more than two years, hours after the United States and South Korea delays a military exercise amid a standoff over the North's nuclear and missile programmes.
The two Koreas march behind their own flags as the curtain falls on two weeks of competition against a backdrop of diplomatic manoeuvring at the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics.
South Korea's efforts to bring the North to its Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang next month are provoking a backlash among its own people, with accusations that Seoul risks turning the Games into a "Pyongyang Olympics".
North Korean delegates arrive in South Korea to inspect venues and prepare cultural performances for next month's Winter Olympics, in the first visit by Pyongyang officials to the capitalist South for four years.
North Korea say during rare talks with the South that it will send a delegation to the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics in South Korea next month and Seoul said it was prepared to lift some sanctions temporarily to facilitate the visit if needed.
North Korea agrees to hold official talks with the South next week, the first in more than two years, hours after the United States and South Korea delays a military exercise amid a standoff over the North's nuclear and missile programmes.
