Koreas mull joint team for 2008

Koreas mull joint team for 2008

SEOUL : South and North Korea are to begin discussions next month on forming a joint team for the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing.

The two Koreas have agreed to parade together in the opening ceremony in Athens next month in a show of growing rapprochement between the old Cold War enemies.

"We have every reason to believe that discussions about a single team will begin at the scene of the Athens Games between the presidents of the two Koreas' national Olympic committees," a South Korean committee official said by telephone on Saturday.

The two Koreas remain technically at war and are divided by the world's most heavily fortified border which was created under a truce that ended the 1950 to 1953 Korean War -- Reuters.