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South Korea’s Moon government adopted strengthening the Korea-U.S. alliance by jointing military as a response to North Korea's nuclear test. However they didn’t give up the “Sunshine policy”, by putting forward the idea “Berlin vision”, providing humanitarian aid to North Korea and etc. South Korea executed its “Sports diplomacy” to North Korea as the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics draw closer. In late 2017 Moon proposed a postponement of U.S.-South Korea military exercises as his most positive signal, then he received a positive response from North Korea. This paper adopted the literature research method and focused on Pyeongchang winter Olympic games to demonstrate the influence of sports diplomacy of Moon government on two Koreas’ relationship. Moon government used the “pyeongchang Olympics” as an opportunity to engage in “sports diplomacy” in 2017 by sending a positive signal to North Korea, which as a result received a positive response. The two countries held talks in Panmunjom, which kicked off the inter-Korean dialogue that began with the Pyeongchang Olympics. By taking the sports diplomacy as an opportunity, the relationship between two Koreas turned to a better situation. The government of Moon Jaein has deepened the mutual trust between the two Koreas and strengthened the determination of North Korea to abandon its nuclear weapons through the Pyeongchang Olympics. However, it is still difficult for South Korea alone to promote the benign development of the situation. The attitude of the United States will continue to affect the future development on the Korean peninsula. In the later stage of Olympics diplomacy, two Koreas still have a long way to go to realize denuclearization and promote the peace process. South Korea and North Korea should make full use of the current situation to continue the dialogue, promote the signing of the agreement to end the war through consultation between the North Korea and the U.S., and finally find the fundamental solution for the peaceful development of the Korean peninsula.