This will be South Korea's second Olympic Games and its first Winter Olympic Games
In the year 1988 Seoul,South Korea hosted the 1988 Summer Olympic Games
North and South Korea have agreed to form their first-ever joint Olympics team and march
together under a "unification flag" at the opening ceremony of the 2018
Winter Olympic Games Feb 09-25,2018
The breakthrough on Wednesday Jan 17,2018 follows a year
of escalating tensions on the Korean Peninsula, amid several missile
launches and a purported test of a hydrogen bomb by the North.
The two countries will field a single women's ice hockey Olympics team .
Both Koreas have appeared together at the openings of previous Olympic Games, but this would be the first joint team in one sport.
Both Koreas have appeared together at the openings of previous Olympic Games, but this would be the first joint team in one sport.
The North's Olympic delegation will use a land route to cross into the
South. That will mark the opening of the land border road for the first
time since February 2016
Note
The two countries are still technically at war, because the 1950-53 Korean conflict ended with a truce and not a peace treaty.
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