Daily Mail: KIM JONG UN-IFIED! Poignant moment Korean athletes from North and South parade as one team during historic – and spectacular - opening ceremony of Pyeongchang Winter Olympics
* South Korean President Moon Jae-in met North Korean ceremonial leader Kim Yong Nam in Pyeongchang
* Pair met ahead of Olympics opening ceremony where athletes from North and South walked out together
* Also attending the event, though absent from the meet-and-greet, was Kim Yo Jong, sister of Kim Jong Un
* North and South have already competed together as part of a unified ice hockey team, losing 3-1 to Sweden
North and South Korea marched into the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics as one nation under a unified flag on Friday as the Pyeongchang Games officially kicked off.
Athletes from both countries walked into the main stadium amid a ceremony featuring huge puppets, 1,200 drones and thousands of dancers that was themed around the search for peace.
As they came into the stadium they were greeted by a song called Arirang, a folk tune that was later used as the resistance anthem when Korea was under Japanese imperial rule
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