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North And South Korea Agree First Ever Unified Olympic Team<\/b>
\nThe two Koreas will field a combined women<\/a>\u2019s ice hockey team and march together under one flag at next month\u2019s Winter Olympics in the South, Seoul said on Wednesday, after a new round of talks amid a thaw in cross-border ties.<\/p>\n

North and South Korea have been talking since last week – for the first time in more than two years – about the Olympics, offering a respite from a months-long standoff over Pyongyang\u2019s nuclear and missile programs, although Japan urged caution over the North\u2019s \u201ccharm offensive.\u201d<\/p>\n

The two Koreas will compete as a unified team in the Olympics for the first time, though they have joined forces at other international sports events before.<\/p>\n

North Korea will send a delegation of more than 400, including 230 cheerleaders, 140 artists and 30 Taekwondo players for a demonstration, a joint press statement released by Seoul\u2019s Unification Ministry said, adding the precise number of athletes will be hammered out after discussions with the IOC scheduled for later this week.<\/p>\n

Prior to the Games, the sides will carry out joint training for skiers at the North\u2019s Masik Pass resort and a cultural event at the Mount Kumgang resort, for which Seoul officials plan to visit the sites next week.<\/p>\n

\u201cUnder the circumstances where inter-Korean (relations) are extremely strained, in fact just some 20 days ago we weren\u2019t expecting North Korea would participate in the Olympics,\u201d said Chun Hae-sung, the South\u2019s chief negotiator and vice unification minister.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt would have a significant meaning if the South and North show reconciliation and unity, for example through a joint march.\u201d<\/p>\n

The North Korean delegation will begin arriving in South Korea on Jan. 25, according to the joint statement.<\/p>\n

The North will separately send a 150-strong delegation to the Paralympics, Chun said.<\/p>\n

\u2018IT\u2019S NOT THE TIME\u2019<\/p>\n

Twenty nations meeting in the Canadian city of Vancouver agreed on Tuesday to consider tougher sanctions to press North Korea to give up its nuclear weapons and U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson warned the North it could trigger a military response if it did not choose dialog.<\/p>\n

Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Kono said the world should not be naive about North Korea\u2019s \u201ccharm offensive\u201d over the Olympics.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is not the time to ease pressure, or to reward North Korea,\u201d Kono said. \u201cThe fact that North Korea is engaging in dialog could be interpreted as proof that the sanctions are working.\u201d<\/p>\n

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has refused to give up development of nuclear missiles capable of hitting the United States in spite of increasingly severe U.N. sanctions, raising fears of a new war on the Korean peninsula. The North has fired test-fired missiles over Japan.<\/p>\n

Earlier on Wednesday, state media warned the U.S. of \u201cmeddling\u201d in inter-Korean issues at a time when it had to \u201cmind its own destiny rushing headlong into self-destruction.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe U.S. is miscalculating,\u201d the North\u2019s Rodong Sinmun newspaper said in a commentary. \u201cAlthough the U.S. makes desperate efforts to disturb peace while wielding a nuclear stick, it can not provoke us as long as we have the strong nuclear deterrent.\u201d<\/p>\n

ICY RECEPTION<\/p>\n

Seoul has proposed a joint ice hockey team, which triggered an angry response from athletes in the South suddenly being told they may have to play alongside total strangers.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t know if it will happen, but a joint team will be a good opportunity for ice hockey to shed its sorrow as a less-preferred sport as many Koreans will take interest,\u201d\u00a0South Korean President Moon Jae-in told players during a visit to a training center.<\/p>\n

The number of petitions to the presidential Blue House\u2019s website opposing a unified team shot up to more than 100 this week, with the most popular one garnering more than 17,000 votes.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis isn\u2019t the same as gluing a broken plate together,\u201d said one of the signers.<\/p>\n

The prospect of a combined team had long been unsettling for the South Korean players. As in most other winter sports, the South is much stronger than the North.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur players were really nervous,\u201d Sarah Murray,\u00a0South Korean women<\/a>\u2019s hockey head coach, told Reuters last month during the team\u2019s training swing through the United States.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe can only take 23 players to the Olympics, and they thought these North Koreans are going to come in and take our spots,\u201d Murray said.<\/p>\n

Chun, the South\u2019s lead delegate, said the decision on a united ice hockey team is not yet finalized, as it requires the consent of the IOC and related international body.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re well aware of the people\u2019s concerns and interests about this,\u201d he told a news conference.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut I would like you to see the other side that it could make a positive contribution to peace of theKorean Peninsula and improving inter-Korean relations.\u201d<\/p>\n

On Tuesday, the North said a 140-person orchestra would perform in South Korea during the Games. Pyongyang is also planning to send a large delegation in addition to the athletes and orchestra.<\/p>\n

Paik Hak-soon, the director of the Centre for North Korean studies at Sejong Institute in South Korea, said North Korea was using the cheering squad to draw attention to its apparent cooperative spirit.<\/p>\n

\u201cSeeing good results in competitions thanks to the cheering squad would enable the NorthKoreans to say they contributed to a successful Olympics and the South Korean government would likely agree,\u201d said Paik.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn the end, they are using this old tactic to get to Washington through Seoul.\u201d<\/p>\n

Reclusive North Korea and the rich, democratic South are technically still at war because their 1950-53 conflict ended in a truce, not a peace treaty. The North regularly threatens to destroy theSouth, Japan and their major ally, the United States.<\/p>\n

China, which did not attend the Vancouver meeting, said on Wednesday the gathering showed a Cold War mentality and would only undermine a settlement of the North Korea problem.
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