Those proposals were raised on Tuesday when delegations from both Koreas met for talks at the border village of Panmunjom, though the joint statement released at the end of the negotiations did not mention them. South Korean officials said they would continue to discuss the proposals with the North Koreans as well as the International Olympic Committee.

Follow-up sessions at Panmunjom are expected to be held on Monday, when both Koreas agreed to hold working-level talks on their border and to settle details on the North’s plan to send an art troupe to the Pyeongchang Olympics.

South Korean officials said, meanwhile, that the International Olympic Committee was expected to bring together the national Olympic committees of both Koreas, as well as the international hockey federation and the Pyeongchang organizing committee, to discuss the possibility of a unified women’s hockey team and other issues arising from the North’s last-minute decision to join the Games.

So far, the only North Korean athletes to qualify for the Pyeongchang Games are a pairs figure-skating team. North Korea missed an Oct. 31 deadline to accept invitations from South Korea and the International Olympic Committee to join the Games. But the international body has said it remains flexible and is willing to consider wild-card entries for North Korean athletes.

The South Korean women’s hockey team, which has qualified for the Olympics, would be replaced with the joint Korean team under the South’s proposal. On Feb. 14, South Korea is scheduled to play Japan, which for decades ruled the Korean Peninsula as a colony; a face-off between Japan and a unified Korean team would have huge emotional resonance in both Koreas.

The prospect of inter-Korean reconciliation, through sports and other channels, has strong appeal in South Korea, so much so that all of its governments have tried for a unified Olympic team with the North.

Such efforts have sometimes led to breakthroughs. In 2000, when the Koreas held their first summit meeting, their delegations marched together at the opening ceremony of the Sydney Olympics. They did so again in Athens in 2004, carrying a blue-and-white flag representing a united Korea.