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FILE - In this Friday, Jan. 22, 2016, file photo, gondolas make their way through a thinned forest up the ski slope which would be the venue for the Pyeongchang 2018 Winter Olympics at the Jeongseon Alpine Center in Jeongseon, South Korea. With the Olympic Games coming to a close, one of the main questions facing South Korea and the consequences of hosting an expensive sports event is the future of the scenic Jeongseon Alpine Center, which was built in a formerly government-protected area where some 60,000 trees were razed. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)

After Olympics, South Korea mulls reviving bulldozed forest

By KIM TONG-HYUNG - Associated Press

In this Oct. 10, 2017, file photo, former South Korean President Park Geun-hye, left, arrives to attend a hearing on the extension of her detention at the Seoul Central District Court in Seoul, South Korea. Prosecutors on Tuesday, Feb. 27, 2018, have demanded a 30-year prison term for Park for alleged bribery, abuse of power and other crimes in a landmark corruption case that marked a stunning fall from grace for the country’s first female leader and former conservative icon. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon, File)

Park Geun-hye, former South Korean president, deserves 30 years in jail, prosecutors say

By Kim Tong-hyung - Associated Press

Kim Yong Chol, center, vice chairman of North Korea's ruling Workers' Party Central Committee, leaves to return to North Korea, at a hotel in Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, Feb. 27, 2018. The North Korean envoy making a rare visit to South Korea said Sunday that his country was willing to open talks with the United States, a rare step toward diplomacy between enemies after a year of North Korean missile and nuclear tests and direct threats of war from both Pyongyang and Washington. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

North Korean delegation returns home after Olympics outreach

By KIM TONG-HYUNG - Associated Press

Kim Yong Chol, center, vice chairman of North Korea's ruling Workers' Party Central Committee, arrives to attend the closing ceremony of the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, at the Korea-transit office near the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) dividing the two Koreas in Paju, South Korea, Sunday, Feb. 25, 2018. (Korea Pool/Yonhap via AP)

North Korean envoy, in South, opens door to US talks

By HYUNG-JIN KIM and KIM TONG-HYUNG - Associated Press

FILE - This Feb. 6, 2018 file photo shows a general view of the Gangneung Oval prior to the 2018 Winter Olympics in Gangneung, South Korea. With the looming close of the games this weekend there’s worry here that the Olympics will instead saddle the region with a legacy of massive debt and the perpetual maintenance of a handful of hugely expensive venues that no one knows what to do with. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana, File)

Forget tourism: Pyeongchang’s legacy probably debt and anger

By FOSTER KLUG and KIM TONG-HYUNG - Associated Press

North Korean supporters sing ahead of the pairs free skate figure skating final in the Gangneung Ice Arena at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Gangneung, South Korea, Thursday, Feb. 15, 2018. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

Sweet Distraction? North Korea’s feminine touch at Olympics

By ERIC TALMADGE and YOUKYUNG LEE - Associated Press

In this photo provided by South Korea Presidential Blue House, South Korean President Moon Jae-in, right, shakes hands with North Korea's nominal head of state Kim Yong Nam as Kim Yo Jong, center, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's sister, watches after a performance of North Korea's Samjiyon Orchestra at National Theater in Seoul, South Korea, Sunday, Feb. 11, 2018. (Presidential Blue House via AP)

In Olympic corner of Asia, web of relationships is complex

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

South Koran President Moon Jae-in talks with Kim Yo Jong, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's sister, during a performance of North Korea's Samjiyon Orchestra at National Theater in Seoul, South Korea, Sunday, Feb. 11, 2018. A rare invitation to Pyongyang for South Korea's president marked Day Two of the North Korean Kim dynasty's southern road tour, part of an accelerating diplomatic thaw that included some Korean liquor over lunch and the shared joy of watching a &quot;unified&quot; Korea team play hockey at the Olympics. At left is North Korea's nominal head of state Kim Yong Nam. (Bee Jae-man/Yonhap via AP)

North Korea won Pyeongchang political gold, but what’s next?

By ERIC TALMADGE - Associated Press

South Koran President Moon Jae-in talks with Kim Yo-jong, North Korean leader Kim Jong-un's sister, during a performance of North Korea's Samjiyon Orchestra at National Theater in Seoul, South Korea, Sunday, Feb. 11, 2018. At left is North Korea's nominal head of state Kim Yong-nam. (Bee Jae-man/Yonhap via AP)

Kim Yo Jong, Kim Jong Un’s sister, heads home after South Korea visit

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Kim Yo Jong, left, sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, shakes hands with South Korean Prime Minister Lee Nak-yeon as Kim Yong Nam, center, North Korea's nominal head of state, watches during a luncheon in Seoul, South Korea, Sunday, Feb. 11, 2018. A rare invitation to Pyongyang for South Korea's president marked Day Two of the North Korean Kim dynasty's southern road tour, part of an accelerating diplomatic thaw that included some Korean liquor over lunch and the shared joy of watching a &quot;unified&quot; Korea team play hockey at the Olympics. (Kim Sung-doo/Yonhap via AP)

Kim’s sister ends Olympic visit, leaving South to mull offer

By KIM TONG-HYUNG - Associated Press

EXCHANGE: South Korean students share their culture

By MARILYN HALSTEAD - Associated Press

Kim Yo Jong, sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, sits to meet South Korean President Moon Jae-in at the presidential house in Seoul, South Korea, Saturday, Feb. 10, 2018. President Moon on Saturday met with the senior North Korean officials over lunch at Seoul's presidential palace in the most significant diplomatic encounter between the rivals in years.(Kim Ju-sung/Yonhap via AP)

Come visit: South Korea’s leader invited to North Korea

By FOSTER KLUG and KIM TONG-HYUNG - Associated Press

The United State Vice President Mike Pence, right, and his wife Karen Pence applaud during the opening ceremony of the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea, Friday, Feb. 9, 2018. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

No Olympic truce for US, North Korea in Pyeongchang

By ERIC TALMADGE - Associated Press

Kim Yo Jong, sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, arrives at the Incheon International Airport in Incheon, South Korea, Friday, Feb. 9, 2018. The sister of the North Korean leader on Friday became the first member of her family to visit South Korea since the 1950-53 Korean War as part of a high-level delegation attending the opening ceremony of the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

At Olympic Games, Kim Jong Un’s sister takes VIP seat

By ERIC TALMADGE - Associated Press

In this image made from video by North Korea's KRT, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, center, attends a military parade in Pyongyang, North Korea Thursday, Feb. 8, 2018. North Korea held a massive military parade highlighted by intercontinental ballistic missiles in its capital on Thursday, just one day before South Korea hosts the opening ceremony of the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics. (KRT via AP Video)

With military parade, Kim Jong-un thumbs nose at U.S.

By Eric Talmadge - Associated Press

This 2015 file photo provided by the North Korean government shows North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and his sister Kim Yo-jong, left, during their visit to a military unit in North Korea. (Korean Central News Agency/Korea News Service via AP, File)

Kim Yo-jong, sister of North Korean leader, to come to South for Olympics

By Kim Tong-hyung - Associated Press

FILE - In this May 11, 2017, file photo, sisters Hannah, left, and Marissa Brandt, pose at their family's home in Vadnais Heights. Minn. Marissa, a native Korean who was adopted as an infant by parents in Minnesota, and her sister Hannah will both be playing in the upcoming Winter Olympics in women's hockey. Marissa for South Korea and Hannah for the U.S. (Scott Takushi/Pioneer Press via AP, File)

Olympics draw Korean adoptees as South Korea confronts past

By SALLY HO - Associated Press

South Korean protesters burn a North Korean and Unification flag during a rally against a visit of North Korean Hyon Song Wol, head of a North Korean art troupe, in front of Seoul Railway Station in Seoul, South Korea, Monday, Jan. 22, 2018. The head of a hugely popular North Korean girl band crossed the heavily fortified border into South Korea on Sunday as part of an official delegation, triggering a media frenzy as she checked potential venues for performances during next month's Winter Olympics. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

South Koreans burn Kim’s photo as North Korean band leader passes

By Hyung-jin Kim and Ahn Young-Joon - Associated Press

Images of South Korean President Moon Jae-in (left) and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un were on a sign during a rally for a peaceful Winter Olympics in Seoul. North Korea plans to send a spotlight-stealing delegation to next month’s Winter Olympics in the South Korean county of Pyeongchang. The letters read "Peace bobsleigh." (Associated Press)

North and South Korea to march into Olympics under ‘unified’ flag

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

FILE - In this April 6, 2017, file photo, women's ice hockey players of South Korea, in white, and North Korea, in red, pose for a photo with International Ice Hockey Federation officials after their Ice Hockey Women's World Championship Division II Group A game in Gangneung, South Korea. North and South Korea agreed on Monday, Jan. 15, 2018, in principle to field a joint women's ice hockey team during next month's Olympics in South Korea, and relayed their position to the International Olympic Committee. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon, File)

Koreas may field a joint women’s hockey team at Olympics

By HYUNG-JIN KIM - Associated Press