Hopes for talks grow with North Korea's ceremonial leader to visit South Korea for Olympics

Kim Yong Nam, president of the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly of North Korea (left). [Photo: Courtesy]

North Korea’s ceremonial leader will make an unprecedented visit to South Korea this week, as hopes grow for high-level inter-Korean talks during the Winter Olympics that begin in four days.

North Korea’s official KCNA news agency confirmed on Monday that Kim Yong Nam, president of the Presidium of the Supreme People’s Assembly, would attend the Olympics’ opening ceremony on Friday in South Korea’s alpine resort town of Pyeongchang.