North Korean athletes leave for Olympics
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North Korea's national team for Olympics left Pyongyang on Tuesday (July 17) heading to the UK to compete in the London Games.
Video provided by the North's state media KCNA showed the Olympic team departing at the airport after being met by Pak Myong Chol, Minister of Physical Culture and Sports.
KCNA said the 51 athletes are accompanied by Kim Pyong Sik, Vice Minister of Physical Culture and Sports.
The reclusive state's athletes will take part in 11 sports -- women's football, marathon, table tennis, judo, wrestling, weightlifting, shooting, archery, diving, boxing and synchronized swimming, KCNA said.
The North won two gold medals at the 2008 Beijing Games in gymnastics and weightlifting, taking their overall medal total at the Summer Games to 41.
It will be the first Olympics for the North under the leadership of Kim Jong-un, who is said to be a keen follower of basketball.
North Korea's national team for Olympics left Pyongyang on Tuesday (July 17) heading to the UK to compete in the London Games.
Video provided by the North's state media KCNA showed the Olympic team departing at the airport after being met by Pak Myong Chol, Minister of Physical Culture and Sports.
KCNA said the 51 athletes are accompanied by Kim Pyong Sik, Vice Minister of Physical Culture and Sports.
The reclusive state's athletes will take part in 11 sports -- women's football, marathon, table tennis, judo, wrestling, weightlifting, shooting, archery, diving, boxing and synchronized swimming, KCNA said.
The North won two gold medals at the 2008 Beijing Games in gymnastics and weightlifting, taking their overall medal total at the Summer Games to 41.
It will be the first Olympics for the North under the leadership of Kim Jong-un, who is said to be a keen follower of basketball.