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S. Korean inspection team set to visit N. Korean venues for joint Olympic events
2018/01/23 08:53

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SEOUL, Jan. 23 (Yonhap) -- A South Korean delegation is set to travel to North Korea on Tuesday to inspect the venues where the two Koreas will hold joint cultural and sports events to celebrate the upcoming 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics.

The visit by 12 officials follows a North Korean team's two-day stay in South Korea, which ended Monday. The North Korean team came to the South to inspect art performance venues in Seoul and Gangneung, a sub-host city of the Olympics.

Led by Lee Joo-tae, director-general for the inter-Korean exchange and cooperation in the Ministry of Unification, the South Korean team will make a three-day visit to the Mount Kumgang area and Masikryong Ski Resort, both in the east of North Korea.

They will use the East Sea Line, one of the two inter-Korean passes, which has not been used since October 2015.

It is the first North Korea visit by South Korean government officials in nearly two years since February 2016, when the South shut down the Kaesong Industrial Complex, a factory park in a namesake North Korean border city that the two Koreas jointly operated.

The officials plan to first look into a performance hall and other facilities in the Mount Kumgang resort, where a joint cultural event will be held.

An inter-Korean tour program to the mountain, which started in 1998, was suspended in 2008 after a South Korean tourist was shot to death by a North Korean soldier in the area.

They will then move to the ski slope in Masikryong to check roads and facilities ahead of joint ski training.

The final leg of the three-day visit is a trip to Kalma Airport, a military airfield that could be used to fly in South Korean ski trainees to the North Korean ski resort.

In growing signs of easing tension on the Korean Peninsula, the two Koreas agreed on the North's participation in the Olympics, as well as a series of working-level exchanges to prepare for joint cultural and sports events for the Olympics.

Another North Korean inspection team will come to the South to look around Olympic stadiums and accommodations on the day the South Korean delegation returns home Thursday.

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韩国先遣队访问朝鲜
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　　新华社平壤１月２７日电（记者程大雨）据朝中社２７日报道，根据１７日北南工作会谈上达成的协议，韩国统一部局长李柱泰等１２人组成的先遣队２３日起对朝鲜进行了为期３天的访问。

　　报道说，韩国先遣队实地考察了马息岭滑雪场和金刚山地区等，这些地方将要进行北南滑雪选手联合训练和北南联合文化活动。

　　另据朝中社早前报道，根据双方１５日就有关朝鲜艺术团赴韩演出事宜达成的协议，由朝鲜三池渊管弦乐团团长玄松月率领的代表团２１日起对韩国进行了为期两天的访问。代表团前往韩国江陵和首尔考察了当地演出准备情况。

　　本月９日，韩国和朝鲜在板门店举行高级别会谈后发表共同声明，就朝方参加平昌冬奥会、双方举行军事部门会谈等事项达成一致。双方强调，还将举行各领域会谈，通过对话协商解决问题。

　　１５日，朝韩双方代表在板门店朝方一侧的统一阁进行实务接触，就朝鲜派遣１４０余人组成的艺术团赴韩国首尔和江陵进行演出达成一致。１７日，朝韩双方代表在板门店韩方一侧“和平之家”举行有关朝方派团参加平昌冬奥会及冬残奥会事宜的实务会谈，就多项事宜达成一致，并通过了联合新闻公报。公报内容包括将于１月底至２月初在朝鲜马息岭滑雪场和金刚山进行北南滑雪选手联合训练及北南联合文化活动。

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Samjiyon performance group members arrive in South Korea for inspection visit
Posted on : Jan.22,2018 16:59 KST Modified on : Jan.22,2018 16:59 KST

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Hyon Song-wol, the director of the Samjiyon performance group, arrives at Seoul Station along with six other members of a North Korean advance inspection team on Jan. 21. (Photo Pool)
The seven members, including Hyon Song-wol, took a KTX train from Seoul to Gangneung
On Jan. 21, seven members of a site review team for the Samjiyon performance group – including band director Hyon Song-wol – arrived in South Korea to visit facilities in the city of Gangneung, Gangwon Province, where the group is expected to perform during the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics. This was the first time for North Korean officials to visit the South since President Moon Jae-in took office. Hyon and the other members of the team crossed the border at the inter-Korean transit office at Dorasan Station on the Gyeongui Line that morning and soon boarded a KTX high-speed train at Seoul Station bound for Gangneung. This was the first time for the Gyeongui Line overland route to be used in two years, since the Kaesong Industrial Complex was closed in Feb. 2016. Hyon’s team visited sites in Gangneung where the band might perform, including the Hwang Yong-Cho Memorial Sports Center and the Gangneung Culture and Art Center, which is capable of seating around 1,000 people. Hyon is planning to head to Seoul on Jan. 22 to inspect additional concert venues. She will wrap up her two-day schedule that evening and then return to North Korea. In related news, North Korea sent a cable on Jan. 21 approving a request made by the South the previous week to dispatch its own advance team. This opens the door for a team of 12 members under Lee Joo-tae, director of the Unification Ministry’s Bureau of Cooperation and Exchange, to cross into North Korea on the East Sea Line oversea route on Jan. 23. Lee’s team will review the facilities at the Masikryong Ski Resort and at Mount Kumgang where joint training and a joint cultural event will be held, along with the Kalma International Airport, located near the ski resort. North Korea reportedly intends to send another advance team to South Korea from Jan. 25 to 27, consisting of eight officials, led by Yun Yong-bok, deputy director of the Ministry of Physical Culture and Sports. Yun’s team is planning to cross the border on the Gyeongui Line overland route and inspect the lodgings of the North Korean athletes, the site of the Olympics’ opening and closing ceremonies, the athletic stadiums and the press center. By Park Byong-su, senior staff writer and Noh Ji-won, staff reporter Please direct questions or comments to [[email protected]]

 

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