North, South Korea to march under single 'united' flag at Olympics

SEOUL: Sports seems to be a major source of narrowing gap between two arch-rivals as North and South Korea apparently made a breakthrough on Wednesday, announcing to march together under a single "unified Korea" flag at next month's Winter Olympics in the South.

Shunning all the differences, they also reached agreement to field a joint women's ice hockey team in the first high-level talks between the two Koreas in more than two years.

The Games will take place between 9 and 25 February in Pyeongchang in South Korea.

If the plans are realised, a hundreds-strong North Korean delegation - including 230 cheerleaders, 140 orchestral musicians and 30 taekwondo athletes - could cross into the South via the land border to attend.

While the N Korea has also agreed to send a smaller, 150-member delegation to the Paralympics in March.

It will have to be approved by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) meeting in Switzerland on Saturday as  North Korea has missed registration deadlines.