SEOUL • South Korea President Moon Jae In has proposed that his country and North Korea form a unified team to compete in the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, pinning high hopes on sports as a driver to kickstart inter-Korean exchanges that have for years been at a standstill..
SEOUL • South Korea President Moon Jae In has proposed that his country and North Korea form a unified team to compete in the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, pinning high hopes on sports as a driver to kickstart inter-Korean exchanges that have for years been at a standstill.
Mr Moon made the overture last Saturday, at the opening ceremony of the 2017 World Taekwondo Championships in Muju, North Jeolla province, to which the North sent a rare demonstration team. It was the first sports exchange since Mr Moon took office.
The liberal leader, who advocates dialogue and reconciliation with North Korea, recalled 1991, when the two Koreas competed for the first time in one team for the World Table Tennis Championships and Fifa World Youth Championship.
