GANGNEUNG, South Korea: Around 120 North Korean art performers in matching red coats and fur hats left for the South, its state media said on Tuesday, the latest in the flurry of cross-border exchanges in the run-up to the Pyeongchang Olympics.

The troupe were seen off from a train station in the North Korean capital Pyongyang by officials including supreme leader Kim Jong-Un’s sister, Yo-Jong, smiling broadly and wearing a black coat and gray fur scarf.

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