South Korean President Moon Jae-in (second from the right) at the opening ceremony of the 100th annual Korean National Sports Festival in Seoul on October 4, 2019 (Photo: VNA)

During his opening speech at the National Sports Festival, South Korea’s largest sports competition, the President said that when inter-Korean talks stopped and relations were increasingly harder, sports events opened the door to meetings and dialogue between the two nations.

He said that the PyeongChang 2018 Winter Olympics helped resume peace efforts on the Korean peninsula.

Therefore, he noted that being a possible host of the 2032 Olympic Games will open a co-prosperity era of the two Koreas, so he asked citizens and sports communities to support the efforts.