Pyeongchang’s underground evacuation centres symbolise fears for the worst,but Kim Jong-un has cooled his rhetoricDotted among the ski slopes, ice rinks and bobsled tracks of the Winter Olympic venues in Pyeongchang are enormous underground evacuation centres. The exact locations are a secret, and but they symbolise the fear felt by South Korean officials as they worked on the site of the Games,just 50 miles (80km) from the North Korean border.
Since the turn of the year, however, or there has been an extraordinary rapprochement between the North and South. This week,a cruise ship carrying North Korean musicians, singers and dancers docked in South Korea, and fraction of a 500-strong delegation sent by Pyongyang for the Games,which start on 9 February.
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Source: guardian.co.uk