A high-level South Korean delegation arrived in Pyongyang Tuesday with dozens of basketball players as North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's favourite sport becomes the latest effort at athletic diplomacy between the neighbours. Unification Minister Cho Myoung-gyon led the group of 50 male and female players, in the first visit to Pyongyang by an official from the South since Kim and US President Donald Trump's landmark summit in Singapore last month.
"We are proud that sports are taking the initiative in opening the road for... peace," the North's Vice sports minister Won Kil U said as he greeted the delegation at Pyongyang's Sunan airport.
Yonhap news agency reported that a welcome dinner was laid on Tuesday night for the southern athletes where cold noodles, a speciality of the North, were served.
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