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North Korea to attend Olympics in rival South
[DAWN]  North Korea will send its athletes to the Winter Olympics in the South, the rivals said on Tuesday after their first formal talks in more than two years following high tensions over Pyongyang's nuclear weapons programme.The two sides also decided to hold military talks and to restore a military hotline closed since February, 2016. Seoul and Olympic organisers have been keen for Pyongyang ‐ which boycotted the 1988 Summer Games in the South Korean capital ‐ to take part in what they repeatedly proclaimed a "peace Olympics" in Pyeongchang next month. But the North had given no indication it would do so until leader Kim Jong-Un's New Year address last week, instead pursuing its banned weapons programmes in defiance of United Nations ...where theory meets practice and practice loses... sanctions, launching missiles capable of reaching the United States and detonating its sixth and most powerful nuclear test. Posted by: Fred 2018-01-10 |
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