of a rogue community. they are banning north korea from participating in the winter olympics in beijing, at least under the country s official name, because of their decision not to send athlete to the summer games in tokyo. missing the olympics, not once but twice in the space of a year, is a terrible missed opportunity for north korea. i think because they have been in this emergency lockdown state with the pandemic, they will have to pay the price of being relegated to a non-player, a non-actor. analysts say despite this pageantry, his appearance, north korea is probably worse off internally than the world realizes. during the pandemic, north korea s border with china has been closed off. food, revenue, other resources have not been getting in. north korea ns are likely in moe desperate straits than normal. thank you very much. more breaking pandemic news