BEIJING: International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach announced on Saturday that North Korea will take part in the next two Olympic Games in Japan and China.

 Bach travelled to Pyongyang on Thursday and after meeting North Korean leader Kim Jong Un He allowed North Korea to be part of Olympic Games.

This decision of North Korea's participation in the Winter Games helped ease tensions over the Korean peninsula.

Addressing to Media at Beijing airport upon his return, IOC Chief Bach said North Korea will participate in the 2020 Summer Games in Tokyo and the 2022 Winter Games in Beijing.

"This commitment was fully supported by the supreme leader of the DPRK in a very open and fruitful discussion I had with him yesterday," Bach asserted by using the country's official name, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.

"The IOC will make a proposal for a potential joint march or potential other joint activities for Tokyo and then maybe also for Beijing at the appropriate time," he further said.

The North's official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) stated Bach told Kim the tour was to "express the most heartfelt thanks" to North Korea's boss for helping make February's the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics a Games that were “symbolic of peace” as TOI quoted.

Athletes from North and South Korea marched under a joined peninsula flag at the opening ceremony in Pyeongchang, and the two Koreas have seen a momentous defrost in tensions since.