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FILE - In this Jan. 1, 2018, file photo, South Koreans watch a TV news program showing North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's New Year's speech, at the Seoul Railway Station in Seoul, South Korea. On Jan. 1, 2018, Kim said in his New Year’s address that he is willing to send a delegation to the Pyeongchang Olympics. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man, File)

North Korea to go to South Korea’s Olympics after talks

By HYUNG-JIN KIM - Associated Press

Thursday’s Sports in Brief

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

A visitor takes picture in front of ribbons wishing for the reunification of the two Koreas on the wire fence at the Imjingak Pavilion near the border village of Panmunjom, in Paju, South Korea, Thursday, Jan 4, 2018. North Korean leader Kim Jong Un reopened a key cross-border communication channel with South Korea for the first time in nearly two years Wednesday as the rivals explored the possibility of sitting down and talking after months of acrimony and fears of war. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

In small breakthrough, Koreas will meet for talks on Tuesday

By HYUNG-JIN KIM - Associated Press

FILE - In this Jan. 3, 2018 file photo, a South Korean government official communicates with a North Korean officer during a phone call on the dedicated communications hotline at the border village of Panmunjom in Paju, South Korea. A Seoul official says both Koreas have agreed to hold their first talks in more than two years next Tuesday, Jan. 9, 2018. Unification Ministry spokesman Baik Tae-hyun said Friday, Jan. 5, 2018, that North Korea has accepted Seoul's offer to meet at the border village of Panmunjom that day to discuss how to cooperate on next month's Winter Olympics and how to improve overall ties.(South Korea Unification Ministry/Yonhap via AP, File)

The Latest: Japan says it’ll do what’s needed on N. Korea

Associated Press

In this Sunday, Aug 7, 2016 photo, South Korean gymnast Lee Eun-ju, right, and her North Korean counterpart Hong Un Jong pose together for photographers during the artistic gymnastics women's qualification at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Like dozens of athletes at the Rio Games, some competitors from North and South Korea have posed together for grinning selfies, which have then been posted to social media and documented by some of the hundreds of journalists here. These interactions are not strictly illegal in South Korea, but they are complicated by the Koreas’ long history of animosity and bloodshed. (Kim Do-hoon/Yonhap via AP) KOREA OUT

Even Olympic selfies are complicated by Koreas’ rivalry

By FOSTER KLUG - Associated Press

South Korean protesters stage a rally to oppose the possible deployment of the United States' advanced defense system THAAD, a Terminal High-Altitude Area Defense, on Korea Peninsula, near the presidential house in Seoul, South Korea, Monday, Feb. 1, 2016. North Korea may be preparing to launch a rocket or missile, according to a U.S. defense official and expert analysis of commercial satellite imagery. The signs read " Oppose the deployment of THAAD." (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

Seoul, U.S. to open talks on missile defense aimed at North Korea

By Hyung-jin Kim - Associated Press

People in Seoul, South Korea, walk by a screen showing the news reporting about an earthquake near North Korea's nuclear facility on Jan. 6. (Associated Press)

North Korea’s Kim boosts propaganda in praise of nuke test

By Foster Klug and Hyung-Jin Kim - Associated Press

South Korean protesters shout slogans during a rally demanding to stop the joint military exercises, Ulchi Freedom Guardian or UFG, between the U.S. and South Korea near the U.S. Embassy in Seoul, South Korea, Monday, Aug. 17, 2015. The UFG exercise kicked off Monday for a 12-day run to prepare for a possible North Korea's attack. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

Seoul: N. Korea resumes loudspeaker broadcasts amid tension

By HYUNG-JIN KIM - Associated Press

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon attends a meeting with South Korean President Park Geun-hye at the presidential Blue House in Seoul Wednesday, May 20, 2015. Ban said Wednesday that North Korea had cancelled an invitation for him to visit a factory park in the country that represents the last major cooperation project between the rival Koreas. (Jung Yeon-je/Pool Photo via AP)

Ban Ki-moon, U.N. chief, says North Korea cancels invitation to visit

By Hyung-jin Kim - Associated Press

South Korean Unification Minister Ryoo Kihl-jae adjusts his glasses during a press conference at the government complex in Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, Feb. 6, 2014. While North Korea is threatening to cancel a reunion of Korean War-divided families later this month only one day after agreeing on dates for the emotional meetings, Ryoo said that the agreement must be followed. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

NKorea threatens to cancel reunions with Seoul

By HYUNG-JIN KIM - Associated Press

An elderly man watches a television program airing South Korean President Park Geun-hye's New Year's speech to the nation, at the Seoul Train Station in Seoul, South Korea, Monday, Jan. 6, 2014. Park called on Monday for resuming reunions of families separated by war, saying it was a chance to improve strained ties between the rival Koreas. Part of the Korean writing in the sentence reads: "Reunions of separated families" (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)

South Korea calls for reunions of separated families

Associated Press