The invitation, delivered by Kim's visiting sister Kim Yo Jong, said Kim was willing to meet the South`s leader 'at the earliest date possible', said a spokesman for the presidential Blue House

Kim Jong Un's sister invites South Korean president to Pyongyang

The first combined Korean team in Olympic history suffered a resounding 8-0 defeat to Switzerland in women's ice hockey

Switzerland trounces unified Korean ice hockey team

The number of new norovirus cases is a steep drop-off from the 42 new cases confirmed on Thursday and 54 a day earlier

Olympics: Norovirus outbreak tapers off as Games get underway

North Korea’s Samjiyon Band gave a surprisingly different kind of performance at the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympic.

Opinion: Music, sex and politics at Winter Olympics

The sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un arrived in South Korea on Friday

Watch: North Korean leader Kim's sister arrives in South Korea

The 23rd Winter Olympics will feature 102 events in 15 sports and athletes from all over the world

Google celebrates 23rd Winter Olympics

The IOC is providing Galaxy Note 8 devices from Olympic sponsor Samsung to all athletes and officials at the Games, loaded with essential logistical and competition information

North Koreans decline Olympic phones: reports

47 Russian athletes and staff implicated in doping have lost a last-minute court bid to take part in the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, the Court of Arbitration for Sport said on Friday

47 Russians lose late court bid to compete at Olympics

US Vice President Mike Pence arrived in the South later Thursday and is also scheduled to attend the opening ceremony in Pyeongchang on Friday

North Korea holds military parade on eve of Olympics

When all universities in North Korea were shut down for an entire year in 2011, the students were sent to construction fields except for 270 students at Pyongyang University of Science and Technology. Thrice a day, the students had to sing praises to Kim Jong-il and North Korea

Suki Kim: The novelist who went undercover in North Korea

The ceremony will also be attended by a senior delegation of North Korean officials, including the younger sister of leader Kim Jong Un and the North`s nominal head of state, Kim Yong Nam.

North Korea says no US talks planned at Olympics as Pence heads to Seoul

Kim has overseen rapid progress in its nuclear and ballistic missile programmes

Kim Jong Un: North Korea is a 'world-class military power'

Speaking in Tokyo on his way to South Korea, which is hosting the Games over the next three weeks, Pence said he would soon announce the stepped-up sanctions in an effort to pressure the North to abandon its nuclear and missile programmes.

Ahead of Olympics face-off, Mike Pence vows new North Korea sanctions

Pence pledged that Washington would 'intensify its maximum pressure campaign' on the North, working with Tokyo

Pence announces 'toughest' US sanctions on North Korea

The new sanctions boost against North Korea was passed by the UN in December and stipulated that all North Koreans working abroad should be sent back by the end of 2019

Russia sending back North Korean workers: Envoy

North Korea accused the United States on Tuesday of seeking to aggravate the situation on the divided Korean peninsula by "deploying large nuclear assets" nearby and lay the ground for a possible pre-emptive strike against it

North Korea says US considering limited pre-emptive strike

Amid all the chaos, North and South Korea will march as an unified team under a neutral Korean peninsula flag at the opening ceremony of the Olympics on Friday

Winter Olympics: North Korean art troupe hit by protests in South

In an increasingly privatised sports place, with a hardening monoculture of fewer and fewer sports and competitors, the Olympics provide the greatest range of national and regional accessibility.

Opinion: Do the Olympics still matter?

Bach said it had been a "long and difficult journey" to organise an Olympics in Korea, whose two sides are divided and remain technically at war

Pyeongchang Olympics brings 'real hope' to divided Koreas, says Bach

A North Korean ministry spokesperson said that it would deter Trump's 'sinister intention' to do something about its regime, the Yonhap news agency reported

North Korea slams Trump address as 'heights of arrogance'

North Korea violated United Nations sanctions to earn nearly $200 million in 2017 from banned commodity exports, according to a confidential report by independent UN monitors, which also accused Pyongyang of supplying weapons to Syria and Myanmar

North Korea earned $200 million from banned exports, sends arms to Syria, Myanmar: UN report

Coal shipments were delivered to China, Malaysia, South Korea, Russia and Vietnam by ships using 'a combination of multiple evasion techniques, routes and deceptive tactics,' a UN report said

North Korea flouting sanctions, earned $200 mn from banned exports: UN

North-South negotiations earlier this month have eased fears of war on the Korean peninsula

State of the Union address: Trump calls North Korea leadership 'depraved,' warns of nuclear missile threat

To overcome communication issues the South's sports authorities put together a list of the different vocabularies and distributed it to the players

Winter Olympics: Unified Korean ice hockey team lost in translation

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