North Korea to send ceremonial head to South Korea for Olympics

North Korea is to send its nominal head of state to South Korea this week as the rivals push through with rare rapprochement steps ahead of this month's Winter Olympics in the South.

Kim Yong Nam, the head of the North's parliament, will be the highest level North Korean official to visit South Korea since the North sent then-number two Hwang Pyong So at the close of the 2014 Asian Games in Incheon, South Korea.