IN BRIEF : N. Korea Hints at Unity for Games
North Korea’s Olympic chief plans to deliver a letter to his South Korean counterpart through the border village of Panmunjom on Monday, government officials said today.
Kim Yu Sun, president of North Korea’s National Olympic Committee, said in a telephone message that the letter will be addressed to his South Korean counterpart, Kim Chong Ha, the officials said.
The North Korean sports leader gave no hint at the contents of the letter, but South Korean officials speculated that it would be about Pyongyang’s recent proposal for forming a single Korean sports team for the 1990 Asian Games in Beijing.
North Korea sent a letter on Dec. 21 proposing that sports officials of the two Koreas start negotiations next month to form a single sports team for the Beijing Games.
South Korea immediately accepted the offer, but the Pyongyang government has recently said the talks could not be held if the annual U.S.-South Korea “Team Spirit” exercises were not canceled.
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