"The South-North sports exchange (the IOC) is promoting with a firm will should be successful for the sake of peace between the two Koreas," Kim said during a meeting with IOC president Juan Antonio Samaranch.
Seoul hopes to organise a single team with North Korea for the Asian Winter Games next year in South Korea's Kangwon Province, for the 2000 Olympics in Sydney and for the 2002 Asian Games in South Korea's second city of Pusan, Kim said.
"We will appreciate Samaranch's and the IOC's cooperation," Kim was quoted as saying in a statement.
IOC executive board member Thomas Bach of Germany was scheduled to arrive in Pyongyang this weekend to discuss the idea with North Korean officials.
Samaranch, speaking at a news conference on Wednesday at the conclusion of a three-day IOC meeting in Seoul, had said that any decision on fielding joint Korean sports teams would be a political one and was out of the hands of sports officials.
North and South Korea, technically still at war, formed single soccer and table tennis teams for international tournaments in the early 1990s but there have been no sporting exchanges since then.
Samaranch also talked about a possible South Korean bid to host the 2010 Winter Olympics in its southwestern mountain resort of Muju, the presidential statement said.
"If Korea wants, it has a very high possibility of being selected as the host," Samaranch was quoted as saying.
China was considering making a bid for the 2008 Summer Olympiad, with Shanghai as the host city, he said.
Kim was quoted as saying in reply: "If China succeeds in hosting the 2008 Olympic Games, that will contribute greatly to the peace of Asia and the world."
A major topic at the IOC meeting was a proposal for a new medical agency which would be responsible for drawing up uniform standards on illegal drugs, testing procedures and sanctions.
Samaranch said the IOC would seek backing from national summer and winter Olympic federations in October and the plan was for the agency to be approved at the World Conference on Doping in Switzerland in February.
Reuters
