A sweetened package of five sports was...

A sweetened package of five sports was offered to North Korea by the International Olympic Committee, whose president, Juan Antonio Samaranch, warned that time was running out for solving the question of whether to stage part of the 1988 Games in Pyongyang.

North Korea, threatening a boycott if its demands are ignored, immediately said the package was not good enough.

The fourth round of joint talks ended with the IOC offering North Korea archery, table tennis, women’s volleyball, the men’s 100-kilometer road cycle race and one of the soccer qualifying groups.