Anchor: South and North Korea exchanged proposals related to the North's participation in the PyeongChang Olympic Winter Games during their high-level talks held for the first time in nearly two years on Tuesday. 
Kim In-kyung has the details. 

Report: The first high-level inter-Korean talks in two years began at 10 a.m. Tuesday at the Peace House in Panmunjeom on the South Korean side of the border. 

The North’s five-member delegation led by Ri Son-gwon, chairman of the Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of the Fatherland, arrived at the meeting venue after walking across the Military Demarcation Line. 

The corresponding delegation for the South, led by Unification Minister Cho Myoung-gyon, was already there.  

During the talks, North Korea proposed dispatching a large Olympic delegation to the South next month. 

In a news briefing at the Peace House, Vice Unification Minister Chun Hae-sung said that South Korean representatives asked the North to send many of its athletes and cheerleaders to the PyeongChang Olympic Winter Games.  

In a keynote statement, the South also requested Red Cross talks in order to hold separated family reunions during the Lunar New Year holidays this year. 

In response, the North Korean side suggested that Pyongyang dispatch its athletes, cheerleaders and high-ranking officials including members of the Olympic body. It also proposed sending teams of reporters, performers and Taekwondo practitioners. 

Chun said that Unification Minister Cho conveyed the need to resume dialogue for the settlement of peace, including denuclearization, as soon as possible. However, the North didn't make a particular response to the matter.  

If the reunion is held, it would be the first such gathering since October 2015. More than 130-thousand South Koreans have applied to meet their relatives in the North, but less than 42-hundred have been reunited through some 20 meetings.  
Kim In-kyung, KBS World Radio News.