The government plans to allow the North Korean sports minister to enter the country in late November to attend a meeting connected with the 2020 Games, sources said Saturday.
North Korea has told officials involved in the preparation for the general assembly meeting of the Association of National Olympic Committees that Kim Il Guk, minister of physical culture and sports, wants to participate in the gathering from Nov. 28 to 29 in Tokyo, according to the sources.
Japan has banned North Korean nationals from entering the country as part of unilateral sanctions against Pyongyang over its development of nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles.