North Korea is to send a delegation to the 2018 Winter Olympic Games taking place in South Korea in February, officials from the South say. The breakthrough announcement came as the countries met for their first high-level talks in more than two years. The delegation will include athletes, officials and a group of cheerleaders.
A military hotline between the nations, suspended for nearly two years, will be reinstated from Wednesday, the South's officials said.
-What's happened at the talks?-
They have continued all day and the developments have been conveyed by officials from the South:

• Vice unification minister Chun Hae-sung told journalists, "The North side proposed dispatching a high-level delegation, National Olympic Committee delegation, athletes, supporters, art performers, observers, a taekwondo demonstration team and journalists" to the Games.
• The South proposed that athletes from both Koreas march together at the opening ceremony in Pyeongchang as they did at the 2006 Winter Olympics.
• The South pushed for the reunion of family members separated by the Korean War, a highly emotional issue for both countries, to take place during the Lunar New Year holiday, which falls in the middle the Games
• The South also proposed resuming negotiations over military issues and the North's nuclear programme.
• The South said it would consider temporarily lifting relevant sanctions, in coordination with the UN, to facilitate the North's participation in the Olympics.

The North's response to all of the South's proposals is not yet known. The opening remarks of head of the North Korean delegation, Ri Son-gwon, were fairly neutral. He said he hoped the talks would bring a "good gift" for the New Year and that the North had a ‘serious and sincere stance’.
-Where are the talks and how did they come about?-
They are being held in the Panmunjom ‘peace village’ in the demilitarised zone (DMZ) at the border. There are five senior officials on each side. The leaders of both nations are said to be watching the talks via a CCTV feed.
In his New Year address, North Korean leader Kim Jong-un had said he was considering sending a team to the Olympics. South Korea's Olympics chief had said last year that the North's athletes would be welcome.
Following Mr Kim's overture, the South then proposed high-level talks to discuss the North's participation, but the North only agreed to the talks after the US and South Korea agreed to delay their joint military exercises until after the Olympics. The North sees the annual drills as a rehearsal for war. Some critics in the US see the North's move as an attempt to divide the US-South Korea alliance.
-Dramatic change-
A little over a week ago North Korea was threatening nuclear war, this morning a delegation from Pyongyang strode across the demarcation line that divides North and South Korea and agreed a North Korean delegation would attend the Pyeongchang Games. It is a sudden and dramatic change after months of tension. But few in the South believe any of this demonstrates a fundamental shift in Pyongyang's position.
Experts say North Korea's leader Kim Jong-un has become increasingly fearful that the US is planning a military strike against him, and has decided he must do something to de-escalate tensions.
South Korea's President Moon Jae-in has been thrust into the delicate position of trying to engage the North in genuine dialogue, while not upsetting his very sceptical American ally.

Source: BBC