The 2018 Olympic Winter Video games in Pyeongchang, South Korea, will embody unprecedented shows of unity.
North Korea and South Korea introduced Wednesday in a press release they’ll march collectively underneath a unified flag subsequent month on the Winter Olympics opening ceremony, in accordance with Bloomberg’s Kanga Kong. The nations additionally will subject a joint girls’s ice-hockey workforce in an obvious signal of thawing relations between the 2 neighbors.
The unified flag may be just like the one the Koreas displayed at sporting occasions lately, together with the 2000 and 2004 Summer season Olympics and the 2006 Winter Olympics.
For anybody questioning, this is the Korea Unification flag in Sydney in 2000 (photograph AP), considered one of a number of Olympics its been carried at up to now, plus a greater have a look at the flag’s design. pic.twitter.com/FLpTHNiCRz
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Tensions over North Korea’s nuclear program have been excessive in current months, however the Olympics would possibly present at momentary respite from the fixed saber rattling.
