They've got 31 athletes competing and have already won a silver medal in weightlifting. Apparently conditions are pretty shit over there and anything less than gold will not give them any glory. I was surprised too tbh.
I guess that makes sense but it's just so bizarre to me that a country that threatens to nuke other countries and just declared war on another can just casually get together to compete against them in a good old fashioned sports competition like wut
I feel like you all might be interested in this movie i watched with my brother last year called "As One" (2012) that tells the story of the first post-war unified Korean table tennis team that won gold in japan in 1991. It's pretty touching, and equally interesting, since it shows a new perspective.
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Also, the ancient greeks constantly bashed each others' skulls in. But even in wartime, they still had the Olympics and all warring kingdoms/nations competed
The V is for victory. This poor girl on the left (and maybe both of them) will not be alive till the end of the week. That's why we have the Olympics. So the only person with the internet SunLord supreme Kim Jong can see this and bazooka her.
North and South Koreans are the same people though, they just have an oppressive regime holding them hostage in the north. Many are even relatives who can't see each other. It's like Germany in the cold war; the East Germans and the West Germans were not from different countries and did not have to be shown their commonalities, nor do the Koreans.
Show me a Palestinian and Israeli getting along and maybe you'll have a point.
You've got an incredibly hostile country and you're just gunna deny their people just from competing? not a good idea
their idiot leader did
it would be like blaming the German people for the stinking mess that Hitler caused
Show me a Palestinian and Israeli getting along and maybe you'll have a point.