The South Korean President, Moon Jae-In, sent special delegations to Pyongyang. The visit resulted in a surprising agreement that included Kim Jong-un’s remarks that he is willing to take the road forward for denuclearization and reconciliation with South Korea. As tensions on the peninsula have been at maximum levels for more than fifteen years, this can be considered as a dramatic shift from North Korea’s extremely hostile behaviors in the past. This development indicates that North Koreans may be making efforts to reconcile with South Korea. The relationship of the two Koreas perhaps is still tenuous, but it has been built upon in the PyeongChang Winter Olympics of February 2018. This paper argues that the PyeongChang Winter Olympics, which included both sports and cultural engagements, generated an increased level of interaction between the two Koreas whereby socializing effects took place, and this may have been the key contributor for decreased tensions in the Korean peninsula. In this context, these developments may imply that coercion approaches are less viable than socialization approaches for addressing rogue regimes such as North Korea. This paper examines the impact and viability of sports engagement with North Korea, and the potential for such engagement to provide more suitable grounds for reconciling conflict. Thus, engagement with North Korea should be continued in the effort to socialize Pyongyang to become a human rights norm-abiding state.