Anchor: The sports officials of both South and North Korea have all arrived in Lausanne, Switzerland for a meeting with the key members of the International Olympic Committee headed by President Thomas Bach. On Saturday, they will hold a joint meeting to discuss North Korea’s participation at the PyeongChang Olympic Winter Games.
Our Park Jong-hong has this report.

Report: Delegations from the two Koreas arrived in Lausanne, Switzerland on Thursday for a meeting with members of the International Olympic Committee(IOC) just three hours apart from each other.

The first to arrive was the North Korean delegation led by Kim Il-guk, the regime’s Sports Minister.

Upon their arrival in Geneva, the South Korean delegation led by Lee Hee-beom, head of the winter games' organizing committee, got in two cars that took them to Lausanne some 40 minutes away.

Both sides had little to say to the press except that the IOC has the final say in North Korea’s unexpected participation in the Olympics.

Each side will be checking details of the high-profile meeting on Saturday where the IOC is expected to finalize the scope of North Korea’s unprecedented participation in the Olympics and details on fielding a unified Korean team for women’s ice hockey.

On two previous occasions in the past 27 years, the two Koreas had joined hands in table tennis and football but not in an international sporting event like the Olympics.

The two Koreas also agreed to make a joint entrance at the opening ceremony under a flag of the Korean peninsula which will be the first in eleven years.

Unification Minister Cho Myoung-Gyon had earlier said that five to six North Korean athletes would join the South Korean women’s hockey squad, but was quick to add that the final decision will be made at the IOC meeting.

As of now, North Korea has expressed intent to send its athletes to compete in four sporting events-- pair figure skating, alpine skiing, cross country skiing and women’s ice hockey.

Following the meeting, IOC President Thomas Bach will directly announce the size of North Korea’s delegation of athletes to PyeongChang along with details on the joint uniform that will be worn by the athletes of both Koreas.
Park Jong-hong, KBS World Radio News.