SEOUL, South Korea — South Korea has proposed that North Korea join it in fielding a unified women’s hockey team at the Winter Olympics next month, in what would be a first for the Games and a potentially dramatic emblem of the recent turn toward rapprochement on the Korean Peninsula.
“That’s a topic under discussion at the I.O.C.,” Chang Ung, North Korea’s representative to the International Olympic Committee, told reporters at Beijing’s international airport on Saturday.
Mr. Chang, who was on his way back to Pyongyang, the North’s capital, after visiting the headquarters of the Olympic governing body in Switzerland, would not comment on whether North Korea supported the idea.