Seoul has granted rival North Korea’s women’s ice hockey team permission to play in the South next week, the Unification Ministry said Wednesday, a positive sign ahead of next year’s Winter Olympics.

Teams from the North and South are due to face off against each other in division II group A of the women’s world ice hockey championships, being held in the eastern city of Gangneung next week.

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