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North Korea to attend Olympics in rival South |
2018-01-10 |
[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 |
#8 Practice |
Posted by: Frank G 2018-01-10 13:45 |
#7 Tell me again why North Korea sent a missile into one of their own cities? |
Posted by: AlanC 2018-01-10 13:16 |
#6 Pet rocks. |
Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2018-01-10 12:43 |
#5 I'd also be wondering about the ramifications of defecting athletes. Likely family, friends and pets are being held hostage as security. (assuming there are pets that haven't been eaten) |
Posted by: SteveS 2018-01-10 12:35 |
#4 Media reports indicate the meeting was arranged by the Americans, thus, if true, they are managing the eventual outcome. No doubt it's a ploy by NK, I look for missile tests during the Olympics. There has been reported activity of new launch sites being developed by NK. |
Posted by: jvalentour 2018-01-10 12:19 |
#3 If I were South Korea I'd pay them off so they don't screw with the games. I'd also be wondering about the ramifications of defecting athletes. |
Posted by: rjschwarz 2018-01-10 12:13 |
#2 The stage is being set for South Korea to send danegeld aid to North Korea once again, thus rendering obsolete the nominally tightened sanctions. If that happens, POTUS may decide some troop level cutbacks are in order. |
Posted by: Besoeker 2018-01-10 02:06 |
#1 The stage is being set for South Korea to send The new US administration declared an end to strategic patience. Kim Jong Un made the strategic decision to ignore the Trump administration's rhetoric and respond with provocative missile tests and a hydrogen bomb detonation. Now it looks like KJU made the right decision and will we rewarded generously. This will have global consequences, all of them bad for the West. Maybe the election of Trump was nothing more than Western civilization's final dead cat bounce. |
Posted by: Elmerert Hupens2660 2018-01-10 01:05 |