North, South Korea Solidify Plans to March Together at Olympics

[demmiblue]

Source: Bloomberg

North and South Korea solidified plans to march together under a unified flag at next month’s Winter Olympics and agreed to compete with a joint women’s ice hockey team in a rare show of unity amid heightened tensions about Kim Jong Un’s nuclear program.

With the games to be held in South Korea, the agreement signed Saturday offers a moment of reconciliation amid mounting tensions on the Korean peninsula involving missile tests and military exercises. North and South Korea will enter the opening ceremony in Pyeongchang under a single flag. The two nations haven’t competed as a team in 27 years.

Thomas Bach, center, Kim Il Guk of North Korea, left and Do Jong-hwan of South Korea on Jan. 20.
Photographer: Greg Martin/IOC

"I’m sure it will be a very emotional moment, not just for all Koreans, but also for the entire world," said Thomas Bach, the president of the International Olympic Committee, who hailed the agreement as being in the "true Olympic spirit of respect and friendship."

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[pangaia]

1. I wll say, the members of the South Korean womens' hockey team

are really pissed they have to add a few North Korean unknown players at the last minute.

I don't blame them..

[Bayard]

2. Sounds like a step in the right direction

Rather than threatening to bomb them. And it will piss tRump off. He needs the conflict.