Olympics

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The more overtures, sudden but entirely appropriate, being made by North Korea to their South Korean counterparts, the more concern seems to emanate from quarters in Washington and Tokyo.  A recurring streak in these engagements is the fear that Pyongyang is simply prevaricating, distracting and diverting: they are having us all for fools.

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With less than a month to go before the PyeongChang Winter Olympics in South Korea, leaders of the North and South have agreed to form a joint Olympic hockey team and march together at the opening ceremony under one unified flag, as reported by the AP.

BREAKING: South Korea says rival Koreas have agreed to form their first joint Olympic team and march together in opening ceremony.
— The Associated Press (@AP) January 17, 2018

TASS news agency reported that talks between North and South Korea began Tuesday morning in Panmunjom, and ran for 11 hours.  The main topic for this round of discussions centered on real and practical steps to improve relations between the South and North, with the possibility of the North Korean team participating in the 2018 Winter Olympics to be held in PyeoungChang.
Each country sent a delegation of at least five people, with Unification Minister Cho Mroung-gyon for the South, and Ri Son Gwon of the North.

Being a moralist in the Olympics doesn’t carry you very far. Turn one way, and there are enterprising drug cheats; turn another, there are wads of cash in envelopes finding their inexorable way to an official’s accounts. The challenge of the Olympics is, in a fundamental way, a challenge of institutional decay, ruination and sport as profit.

Russian doping: sports scandal or political game? US officials seem to be driving this latest effort to ban Russian athletes from competing in the Olympic Games.  US operatives are claiming that Russia was guilty of a “state-sponsored doping program” before and during the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics, as well as prior to the Rio Olympics in 2016. Now US operatives appear to have been successful in banning Russia from competing in the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeong Chang.

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