A South Korean delegation will visit North Korea on a chartered plane on Wednesday for a planned joint ski training session.

A Unification Ministry official told reporters that the 45-member delegation will take a chartered flight at 10 a.m. from Yangyang Airport in the South's eastern province of Gangwon to Kalma Airport in the North Korean city Wonsan for a two-day training session at the North's Masikryong Ski Resort.

The official said that after the training session, the South Korean delegation will fly back to Yangyang Airport on Thursday along with North Korean skiers and officials. 

There was speculation that the South Korean delegation may not be able to visit the North due to U.S. sanctions against Pyongyang, but Seoul and Washington reportedly managed to coordinate the matter on Wednesday morning.  

The two sides are said to have discussed ways to make an exception in applying Washington's sanctions, which ban vessels and aircraft that have visited North Korea from entering the U.S. within 180 days.