The North Korean leader has ordered talks on sending a delegation to the upcoming Olympics with South Korea and the reopening of the inter-Korean border hotline at Panmunjom, a DPRK official announced on Wednesday.

Ri Son Gwon, chairman of the Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of the Country (CPRC), read the statement “delegated from” Kim Jong Un at a news conference televised by the state broadcaster Korean Central Television (KCTV).

In remarks translated by NK News, the CPRC chairman said the North Korean leader “gave the instruction to open the communications channel at Panmunjom between the North and the