It was a heartwarming moment that captured the Olympic spirit, but North Korea’s table tennis champions may be punished for joining a selfie with their opponents from the South.
Ri Jong Sik and Kim Kum Yong, who won silver medals, are said to be undergoing “ideological evaluation” along with other athletes who returned from the Paris Games.
The assessment is a standard procedure to “cleanse” the team from “exposure to contamination” abroad, the Daily NK reported.
North Korean athletes were reportedly given “special instructions” not to interact with South Koreans or other foreign athletes in Paris, under threat of repercussions.
Since returning from France, the Olympic team is believed to be in the process of a three-stage ideological assessment process by the country’s ministry of sport.
It is said to last about a month, with the intention of purging any lingering influence of “non-socialist” culture.
Why the hell do we allow North Koreans to join us in anything internationally? Brutal dictatorships should not be enabled in any way
Yeah, it’s pretty weird that they’re banning (rightly but not thoroughly enough) Russia, but North Korea, Israel, and China get to participate as equals with the countries that AREN’T currently committing genocide, starving millions, and doping like there’s no tomorrow.
It’s almost like the ACTUAL reasoning of the IOC is nonpublic and laundry based.
I’m pretty sure Russia only got banned because they had a state-sponsored doping system. Long as you don’t get caught with that, you can be as authoritarian as you want.
If that was true, how come China’s allowed to compete with no restrictions after having 8 of their swimmers test positive in Tokyo and more just weeks before the games?
I’m no expert. But probably there just isn’t enough evidence yet to accuse China as a whole of systematically doping its athletes. I’d imagine they err on the side of “allowing participation” with this kind of stuff.
That and war aggression
Precisely for the togetherness that you see in that picture…and NK had to see it as a threat, of course.
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Lmao NK tankies must tongue scrub the toes of other tankies
https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/sports/2024/08/600_381093.html
PS: found the article they cite https://www.dailynk.com/chinese/朝鲜运动员在奥林匹克跟韩国选手嬉笑自拍而/
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Do you want north Korea itself to report these news? Of course reporting them is those that are interested in reporting these news.
It doesn’t mean that the news are real, but it doesn’t mean that they’re fake either.
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Good, probably fake news then, the rest of the world, including China, was glad to see it, so hopefully it is also shown and seen positively by NK. But nobody knows what happens in NK through official channels, “fake news” from anonymous sources is all we have.