The nearly 150 athletes from both countries went around the stadium behind a unifying flag with the map of the peninsula in blue on a white background.
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The Winter Games are being staged only 80km (50 miles) from the border with North Korea, which is technically still at war with the South since their 1950-1953 war ended in a truce rather than a peace treaty.
An investigation has been launched by Pyeongchang 2018 into whether a cyber-attack was the cause of severe technological issues at some of the venues during Friday night’s opening ceremony of the Winter Olympic Games.
Kim Yo-jong, sister of Kim Jong Un, North Korean leader, will also reportedly be part of a visiting delegation.
2018 Winter Olympics opening ceremony took place on Friday in Pyeongchang, South Korea.
The invitation came as the two Koreas are enjoying a rare moment of unity after the North agreed to participate in the February 9-25 Winter Games and sent 22 athletes and a high-level delegation that included his powerful sister to the South.
Critics say it’s unclear whether revived dialogue between the Koreas could lead to immediate breakthrough on the nuclear stalemate when it seems unlikely that the North would be willing to give up its nukes under any deal.
“In the midst of all this, he ran a military parade that highlighted his ballistic missiles”.
Over the past 60 years or so, more than 31,000 North Koreans have defected to South Korea.
“This is the first time Mike Pence has been accused of being a snob, ” said an aide to the vice president, who was not authorized to speak publicly on the North Korean reports.
Many observers remain suspicious of North Korea’s intentions, given the regime’s history of brutality and aggression. Pence carried a similar message during his trip to Japan and South Korea.
People privy to the operations of the official opening ceremony, which was broadcasted Friday night in America, reportedly anxious that a failure to launch drones could have been part of the for now-ambiguous system difficulties.
He did not shake hands with Kim Yong Nam while making a brief appearance at a leaders’ reception ahead of the ceremony – although Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe did so. Some 28,500 USA servicemembers are based in the South.
Many older South Koreans on both sides of the political divide harbour a nostalgic longing for some form of reunification – conservatives through the North’s collapse, liberals through a more amicable arrangement.
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Moon watched the unified Korean hockey team take the ice Saturday evening for the first time with Kim.
