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AMN / Seoul

N korean leaderNorth Korea has held a military parade attended by leader Kim Jong-un, a day before the opening of the Winter Olympics in South Korea, a BBC News report said on Thursday.

The North often boasts of its parades but reports of this surfaced afterwards with TV only airing delayed footage.

This event is usually held in April and moving it had been seen as a setback to the warming of ties over the Olympics.

But the South announced on Thursday its president would meet the North’s Olympics delegation on Saturday.

Moon Jae-in will have lunch with the 22-strong team, which will include the North’s ceremonial head of state, Kim Yong-nam, and Kim Yo-jong, the influential sister of Kim Jong-un who will become the first member of the ruling dynasty to visit the South.

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