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N. Korea says will not go to Olympics over COVID-19 fears North Korea s Olympic Committee decided not to participate in the 32nd Olympic Games in order to protect players from the world public health crisis caused by COVID-19 , said the Sports in the DPR Korea website, run by the sports ministry in Pyongyang. The 2020 Summer Olympic Games to be hosted by Tokyo have been moved to 2021. Picture: Twitter/@Tokyo2020
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SEOUL - North Korea will not attend this year s Tokyo Olympics because of the coronavirus pandemic, Pyongyang s sports ministry said, blowing the final whistle on Seoul s hopes of using the Games to restart talks with its nuclear-armed neighbour.
N. Korea Says Will Not Go To Olympics Over Covid Fears By Claire LEE
04/06/21 AT 5:52 AM
North Korea will not attend this year s Tokyo Olympics because of the coronavirus pandemic, Pyongyang s sports ministry said, dashing Seoul s hopes of using the Games to restart talks with its nuclear-armed neighbour.
The isolated North s participation in the last Winter Games, hosted by the South in Pyeongchang, was a catalyst in the diplomatic rapprochement of 2018.
Leader Kim Jong Un s sister Kim Yo Jong attended as his envoy in a blaze of publicity, and the South s President Moon Jae-in seized the opportunity to broker talks between Pyongyang and Washington that led to a series of high-profile meetings between Kim and then US president Donald Trump.
Moon s plan for inter-Korean talks at Tokyo Games thwarted
Posted : 2021-04-06 16:59
Updated : 2021-04-06 19:55
Athletes from both South and North Korea jointly enter the stadium under the Korea Unification flag during the opening ceremony of the PyeongChang Winter Olympic Games in Gangwon Province, in this Feb. 9, 2018 photo. Korea Times file
By Nam Hyun-woo
President Moon Jae-in s plan to use the upcoming Tokyo Olympic Games as a vehicle for facilitating talks with North Korea appears to have run aground, as Pyongyang has declared that it will not send its athletes to the sporting event.
The plan has been considered to be virtually the last chance for Moon to revive the stalled inter-Korean talks and Pyongyang-Washington negotiations on denuclearization, as the country will thereafter be engulfed in the presidential race, with Moon s term ending in May 2022.
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