1st LD: DPRK to send athletes to S.Korea for participation in Winter Paralympics

SEOUL, Feb. 27 (Xinhua) -- The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) agreed Tuesday to send its athletes to South Korea on March 7 for the participation in the Winter Paralympics, Seoul's unification ministry said.

The agreement was reached after working-level talks between the two Koreas, held earlier in the day at Tongilgak, a DPRK building in the truce village of Panmunjom that straddles South Korea and the DPRK.

The Winter Paralympics is scheduled for March 9-18 in PyeongChang, South Korea's east county where the Winter Olympics was held earlier this month. Enditem