International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach from Germany welcomes North Korea's Olympic Committee President and Minister of Physical Culture and Sports Kim Il Guk and South Korean Sports Minister Do Jong-hwan, during a working meeting to discuss further sports cooperation between the Republic of Korea (ROK) and the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) as well as their bid to co-host the 2032 Summer Olympics, at the IOC Headquarters in Lausanne, Switzerland, February 15, 2019. Salvatore Di Nolfi/Pool via REUTERS
LAUSANNE, Switzerland (Reuters) - North Korea and South Korea want a joint march at the 2020 Tokyo Summer Olympics and have requested to have some unified teams in different sports, the president of the International Olympic Committee said on Friday.
South and North Korean sports and government officials met with the IOC in Lausanne, buoyed by the role the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics played in easing tensions between the two countries, amid initial planning for a joint bid for the 2032 Olympics.
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