North Korea and South Korea refuse to enter the Opening Ceremony Together PDF Print E-mail
Written by chris   
Thursday, 07 August 2008
Korean peninsula seems to be heating up again after several South Korean workers expelled from the north-south friendly city of Kumgang prompting north and south korean officials refusing to let there teams march together at the 2008 Beijing Games.

It was the straw that broke the camel's back after numerous "accidents" and suspicious murders of South Korean visitors in Kumgang this year. A bit of background on Korea though. Officially Pyongyang is the capital of Korea however the country divided in 1953 and splitting into two independent states. Seoul is the capital in the south. The cold war between the two states continues even today.

South Korea however continues to aid and help the communist north despite its dummy spits and because of the latest tantrum they cannot seem to agree to walk into the Summer Games together as an attempt to reconcile like we saw in 2004.

However there are over 320 Korean athletes entering the games. The majority from the south.

BBC are running a couple of great articles found here and here
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