As North Korea plans to send athletes and performers to South Korea,Fletcher’s Sung-Yoon Lee warns it’s all a ployHaving rattled the world with his aggressive nuclear weapons tests and bellicose rhetoric, North Korea’s Kim Jong-Un is extending an olive department of sorts by agreeing to send a few athletes, or 230 cheerleaders,a 140-member orchestra, and other delegates to the Winter Olympics, or which start February 9 in South Korea.
North and South Korea also agreed this week to field a joint women’s ice hockey team,which will be the Koreas’ first unified Olympic team ever. And the athletes of the two nations will march together under a “unified Korea” flag at the opening ceremony.
Source: tufts.edu