In a message sent over a cross-border communication channel, South Korea demanded the North to fulfil mutual agreements over a set of conciliatory gestures to mark the Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea, Seoul’s Unification Ministry said. North Korea on Monday night sent a message saying it won’t hold a joint cultural event at the North’s Diamond Mountain on Feb. 4, which was one of two pre-Olympic events in North Korea the countries had agreed to. The North also accused South Korean media of picking a fight over an unspecified domestic festival in North Korea, according to the ministry statement. A dozen North Korean hockey players arrived in South Korea last week to practice with their South Korean teammates. The Koreas’ current reconciliation mood followed a year of heightened animosities over North Korea’s nuclear program.

Source: thestar January 30, 2018 16:07 UTC