South Korea Will Not Boycott Tokyo Olympics Over Dokdo Issue
|This would have been the stupidest reason ever to boycott the Olympics:
South Korea is not considering boycotting the Tokyo Olympics, the foreign ministry said Tuesday, after presidential hopefuls of the ruling Democratic Party mentioned the possibility of a boycott amid a renewed territorial spat with Japan over the East Sea islets of Dokdo.
Korea Times
Rep. Lee Nak-yon and former Prime Minister Chung Sye-kyun raised the need to mull boycotting the Games, slated to take place from July 23-Aug. 8, should Japan not revise the map of the Olympic torch relay route that included Dokdo as its territory.
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Proponents of boycotting the Olympics should recall how much good it did for Jimmy Carter in 1980.