North Korea has agreed to send a delegation to the first Winter Olympics in South Korea following last week's inter-Korean talks.

Kang recently attended a foreign ministers' meeting in Vancouver, Canada, where 20 nations gathered to address the threat posed by North Korea's nuclear and ballistic missile programs.

She said the foreign ministers showed their support for inter-Korean dialogue and North Korea's participation in the Olympics.

"The ministers agreed that sanctions and pressure will continue on North Korea as it keeps developing nuclear weapons and missiles," she said. "We reaffirmed that the North Korean nuclear problem should be solved with peaceful and diplomatic ways and such pressure and sanctions are diplomatic tools to lead Pyongyang to denuclearization talks." (Yonhap)