February 22, 2018

The chances of Washington-Pyongyang talks over the latter's nuclear program seem to be growing, with high-level officials from the two countries coming to South Korea for the closing ceremony of the PyeongChang Winter Olympics. 

Attention to any possible contact is high, especially after it belatedly became known the two sides had planned a meeting when U.S. Vice President Mike Pence and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un's sister Kim Yo-jong participated in the opening ceremony.

Cheong Wa Dae and the Ministry of Unification said Thursday Kim Yong-chol, head of the Workers' Party of Korea's United Front Department, would visit the South from Sunday to Tuesday, along with seven other delegates including Ri Son-gwon, chairman of the Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of the Fatherland.

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