North Korea Makes Peace with the Olympics

North Korea Makes Peace with the Olympics
Last year, North Korea sent its women’s national hockey team to play in South Korea,
and South Korea sent its women’s soccer team to play in North Korea.
Ten months before the 1988 Summer Games were held in Seoul, the South Korean capital, North Korean agents placed a bomb aboard a Korean Air flight
and killed all 115 aboard in what South Korean officials said was an attempt to undermine those Olympics.
Jeré Longman
ON OLYMPICS
JAN. 9, 2018
Ryom Tae-ok and Kim Ju-sik of North Korea are not expected to win a medal in pairs figure skating at the 2018 Winter Olympics in South Korea.
At the last major international sporting event held in South Korea, soccer’s 2002 World Cup, North Korea
provoked a naval skirmish with the South on the day that South Korea played a match for third place.
International Olympic Committee said that I feel they’ll be a crowd favorite.
South Korean officials have also strenuously sought to play down security concerns ahead of the 2018 Games, which will
be held in Pyeongchang, South Korea, only about 40 miles from the Demilitarized Zone that separates North and South.