Such a meeting, if it came about, would mark the first inter-Korea summit since 2007.
The sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has delivered a personal letter to South Korea's president, inviting him to a summit in Pyongyang. The overture follows heightened tensions over the North's missile tests.
North and South Korea have agreed to march together under a single "unified Korea" flag at next month's Winter Olympics in the South, according to the BBC.
A South Korean chartered fishing boat capsized off the country's western coast Sunday after colliding with a bigger tanker, leaving 13 people dead and two missing, the Korea Coast Guard said, according to South Korea's Yonhap News Agency.
The air forces of the United States and South Korea are scheduled to hold a regular joint drill early next month, deploying six F-22 Raptor stealth fighters in the exercise, a South Korean defense ministry official said on Friday, according to Reuters.
Ukrainian Deputy Minister of Economic Development Mykhailo Titarchuk, Head of the Ukrainian Parliamentary Committee on IT and Communications Oleksandr Danchenko and Ambassador of Ukraine to the Republic of Korea Oleksandr Horin have met with Member of the National Assembly of the Republic of Korea, Chairman of the Land, Infrastructure and Transport Committee, Chairman of the Friendship Association with Ukraine Jeong-Sik Cho.
South Korea imposed unilateral sanctions on 18 North Koreans on Monday, barring any financial transactions between those sanctioned and any South Koreans, as part of international efforts to dry up Pyongyang's illegal cash flows, according to Reuters.