North and South Korea have agreed in...

North and South Korea have agreed in principle to form a single team for the 1992 Olympics and other international sports events, news reports said.

The national Yonhap News Agency said in a dispatch from Pyongyang, the North Korean capital, that the agreement was reached between South Korean Sports Minister Chung Dong-sung and his North Korean counterpart, Kim Yu Sun, on Friday.

Both officials agreed in principle to form a single Korean team for the 1992 Olympics in Barcelona and the 41st World Table-tennis Championships in Nagoya, Japan, in 1991, it said.

The two Koreas, rivals since the division of their peninsula in 1945, have initiated talks on forming a single sports team several times in the past but failed to reach agreement over procedural and other matters.