North Korea issues statement applauding South Korea’s hospitality toward its delegates at the Winter Olympics

KCNA via REUTERS

• North Korea’s state-sponsored news agency issued a rare press release that congratulated South Korea’s efforts to accommodate its delegates at the Winter Olympics.
• The regime has pursued warmer relations with South Korea in recent weeks. Some foreign-policy observers have expressed skepticism about the North’s overtures.
• The South Korean president Moon Jae-in took some heat over his hospitality to North Korean delegates, but he gave some indication that he remains cautious about Kim Jong-un.

North Korea’s state-sponsored news agency issued a rare press release on Monday, in which the regime’s leader, Kim Jong-un, was said to have “expressed satisfaction” after the country’s delegation arrived back from a trip to the Winter Olympics in South Korea.

Korean Central News Agency (KCNA), the propaganda outlet for the regime, claimed that Kim Jong-un said South Korea’s “specially prioritized” efforts to accommodate North Korea’s delegates were “very impressive,” according to a translation from KCNA Watch.

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