DPRK cancels plan to send delegation to RoK ahead of Winter Olympics
(VOVWORLD) - North Korea has abruptly cancelled plan to send a delegation led by the head of a hugely popular girl band to South Korea over the weekend, to check preparations for a trip by a North Korean art troupe she also leads during next month’s Pyeongchang Winter Olympics.
Ms. Hyon Song-wol, head of a hugely popular girl band in North Korea
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South Korea’s Unification Ministry said North Korea didn’t explain why it was “suspending” the two-day visit by the seven-member advance team that it proposed just hours earlier through a cross-border communication channel.
It wasn’t immediately clear whether the visit, which was to begin on Saturday, was permanently cancelled or postponed. The ministry said it will try to gather further information from the North regarding the decision.