N. Korea hockey players come to South for joint Olympic team

N. Korea hockey players come to South for joint Olympic team | iNFOnews.ca
South Korean women's ice hockey team members attend an inaugural ceremony for 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, Jan. 24, 2018. A 15-member North Korean women's ice hockey team consisting of 12 players, a coach and support staff was scheduled to arrive in South Korea on Thursday to begin training with South Korean athletes for a unified team that will compete at the Olympics. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

SEOUL, Korea, Republic Of – Twelve North Korean female hockey players have crossed the border into South Korea to form the rivals’ first-ever Olympic team during next month’s Pyeongchang Winter Games.

Seoul’s Unification Ministry says in a statement the North Korean athletes arrived in the South on Thursday morning along with a coach and two support staff.

The North Koreans are to travel on to a southern South Korean training centre where they’ll be united with their South Korean teammates.

The rival Koreas recently agreed to field a single women’s hockey team as part of Olympics-related rapprochement deals struck following months of nuclear tensions.

The deals include athletes of the two Koreas marching together under a single flag during the Feb. 9 opening ceremony.

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