North Korea could co-host 2018 Winter Olympics, Seoul suggests

[Eugene]

In a friendly place like North Korea, what can possibly go wrong?

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Source: The Guardian

North Korea could co-host 2018 Winter Olympics, Seoul suggests

South Korea also suggests forming inter-Korean women’s ice hockey
team in hope of easing tensions on peninsula

Justin McCurry in Tokyo
Wednesday 21 June 2017 12.46 BST

South Korea has proposed that North Korea host some of the skiing events at next year’s Winter Olympics, in a move it hopes will ease cross-border political tensions.

The South Korean sports minister, Do Jong-hwan, has also suggested forming an inter-Korean women’s ice hockey team to compete at the Games, which open in February in the South Korean town of Pyeongchang.

Do cited North Korea’s “top-class” Masikryong ski resort as a potential venue and said he would discuss co-hosting with Jang Woong, North Korea’s delegate to the International Olympic Committee (IOC), according to South Korean media.

His overture reflects a desire by South Korea’s new president, Moon Jae-in, for cautious engagement with Pyongyang, despite anger over the its recent missile launches and the death this week of the US university student Otto Warmbier after nearly 17 months in a North Korean prison.

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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jun/21/seoul-proposes-north-korea-host-some-winter-olympics-skiing-events

[nycbos]

1. The international community should say...

... no way in hell.

[DetlefK]

2. A few questions:

How is NK supposed to host the event if their own population is starving?

How are journalists supposed to walk around in NK? Will everybody get a minder?

If a South-Korean goes to North-Korea, will North-Korea straight-up kidnap him, like they did repeatedly throughout the years?

If a foreigner goes to the Olympics and NK jails him for some miniscule crime (like using sarcasm), what happens to the Olympics?




And last:
How will this NOT be compared to the 1936 Olympic Games hosted by Hitler????????????????

[Ghost Dog]

4. Clearly, some investment has been put into the Masikryong ski resort

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masikryong_Ski_Resort

[Not Ruth]

3. I feel misinformed when the only country that thinks that this is a good idea is South Korea

Is North Korea actually going to enter an event that they are not certain of winning?

Based on the last few decades of propaganda, shouldn't they win gold in every event?

[DetlefK]

5. Kim Jong-Il once scored a hole-in-one on all 18 holes of a Golf-course.

His official bio says that, so it must be true.