SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea on Saturday proposed sending a delegation led by the leader of a hugely popular girl band to South Korea to check preparations for a trip by a North Korean art troupe during next month’s Winter Olympics.
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea on Saturday proposed sending a delegation led by the leader of a hugely popular girl band to South Korea to check preparations for a trip by a North Korean art troupe during next month’s Winter Olympics.
The new proposal came less than 24 hours after North Korea canceled the delegation’s visit.
South Korea’s Unification Ministry said it had accepted the proposal for the two-day visit starting Sunday.
Earlier in the day the ministry had requested the North to explain why it abruptly canceled the visit by the seven-member advance team on late Friday, just hours after proposing it through a cross-border communication channel.
The delegation will be led by the art troupe’s leader Hyon Song Wol. She also heads the hugely popular girl band Moranbong, which is hand-picked by North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.
The rival Koreas earlier this week agreed that the little-known 140-member art troupe, Samjiyon, which will include singers, dancers and orchestra members, will perform twice in South Korea during the Games in a sign of warming ties between the countries.
