Korean Unified team = WTF

Olympic Rimjob wrote:

And the OAR athletes. What? About 175 of them from Russia. Either allow them a team or don't.

A Russian "team" was allowed to compete in the team ice skating (finished 2nd). I thought OAR was just to let non-druggie Russians compete as individuals.

Anyone care to explain that?

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I actually laughed. Nice choice of nickname!

Soul of Seoul wrote:

The Winter Olympics follows a lot of rhetoric from both North Korea and the United States. Some of that rhetoric was nuclear...

It's likely that South Korea is desperate to do anything to reduce tensions so that they don't find themselves stuck in the middle of a U.S./North Korea war.. Most assessments show that they would pay the biggest price in that one...

But if South Korea is a key U.S. ally and more importantly a friend; and the U.S. essentially railroaded their plans for a successful hosting of the Olympics; and if South Korea is so worried about an armed conflict on the Peninsula that they are reversing decades of policy and trying anything to diffuse tensions... does this mean that we are really good at strategic policy or that we are really bad at friendships???

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Precious Roy wrote:

North and South relations are much more complicated than most people in the West understand. South Korean politics tend to flip back and forth between pro-reconciliation and pro-confrontation. Ironically, the current administration in South Korea is pro-reconciliation, but had to get in line with US confrontational policy when the North revved up its nuke and missile program. But in South Korea, you will find a lot of people who feel that the confrontation between the North and South is not worth it and would prefer to make some concessions to reduce tensions. The North thinks that improving relations with the South through direct contacts would embarrass the US and circumvent any further sanctions or military actions. So, the joint hockey team and other detente at the Olympics is really not that big of a deal for either the North or South.

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There are plenty of Koreans who buy into the obvious belief that all of Korea is one nation temporarily divided, and plenty more who expect to see it unified at some point. There is indeed some analogy with divided Germany of a bygone era.

These are two halves of what was previously one country, and which share a culture and a language used nowhere else on earth.

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There are plenty of Koreans who buy into the obvious belief that all of Korea is one nation temporarily divided, and plenty more who expect to see it unified at some point. There is indeed some analogy with divided Germany of a bygone era.

These are two halves of what was previously one country, and which share a culture and a language used nowhere else on earth.

Yes, the official position of Seoul and Pyongyang is that they are the legitimate government of the whole peninsula. A better analogy would be Beijing/Taiwan. Reunification is a nice dream but that is not the focus. North Korea is still the evil regime it always was and they aren't going to give that up. When Kim Yo Jong says she looks forward to reunification it means one in which they rule the entire continent.

They like brainwashing us during the opening ceremonies about re-united side-by-side nations.

Can you cross the border freely? Did or did not some guy just escape from there riddle with parasites, shot multiple times crossing the border? What about Otto? Shameful. I don't buy this crap, and neither should anyone watching. It's almost equivalent of saying everything was fine during the 1936 Olympics. Same deal. Propaganda.

Waiting for unified North/South America.