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SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — A top North Korean general will be at the closing ceremony of the South’s Winter Olympics this weekend, Seoul said Thursday — an event that US President Donald Trump’s daughter Ivanka will also attend. Kim Yong Chol, who oversees inter-Korean relations for the ruling Workers’ Party, will lead an eight-member delegation that will visit the South from Friday to Sunday, the unification ministry said in a statement. It will go […]
SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — South Korea on Thursday voiced regret over the decision to ban Russia from the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, saying the participation of the country’s athletes was crucial to the success of the event. The South Korean sports ministry urged Russian athletes to compete as neutrals following the International Olympic Committee’s unprecedented ban, saying in a statement it had “worked hard over the past seven years to make meticulous preparations” for a […]
by Jim Slater Agence France-Presse PARK City, United States (AFP) — Two-time Olympic Alpine ski champion and five-time world champion Ted Ligety expects cooler heads to prevail in US-North Korea tensions and February’s Pyeongchang Winter Olympics to be staged as planned. The 33-year-old American, speaking Tuesday in his hometown at a preview event for the 2018 Winter Games, said the risk to South Korea and other nations in a conflict between North Korean and American […]
SEOUL, South Korea (Reuters) — South Korea unveiled the bronze, silver and gold medals that the world’s top athletes will compete for in Pyeongchang 2018. Located in the mountainous Gangwon Province, some 180 kilometres east of Seoul, Pyeongchang will host Asia’s first Winter Games outside Japan and kick off an Asian Olympic cycle that reflects the region’s growing influence on world sport. Head of the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics Organizing Committee (POCOG), Lee Hee-beom, said […]
