It is pretty amazing how Kim Jong-un has taken over the 2018 Winter Olympics. There is very little in the Korean media about South Korean athletes while the North Korean athletes are surrounded by media attention:
North Korean figure skater Ryom Tae-ok waves as she enters Gangneung Olympic Village in Gangneung, Gangwon Province, on Feb. 1, 2018, to get ready for the PyeongChang Winter Olympics. Ryom is one of 22 North Korean athletes set to participate in the competition. (Yonhap)
North Korean Olympic athletes checked in to their living quarters for the upcoming PyeongChang Winter Games amid tight security on Thursday.
Pyongyang’s vice sports minister Won Kil-u led a delegation of 32, including 10 athletes, to Gangneung, a sub-host city for all ice events during the Feb. 9-25 Olympic Games. They’d landed at Yangyang International Airport on a South Korean chartered plane earlier Thursday, and traveled about 50 kilometers south to reach Gangneung Olympic Village.
Gangneung’s village, built for those in ice sports, is one of two athletes’ residential areas for the Olympics. PyeongChang Olympic Village will house competitors in snow events.
The 10 athletes that arrived here Thursday are three alpine skiers, three cross-country skiers, two figure skaters and two short track speed skaters.
Ryom Tae-ok, a pairs figure skater, was the center of attention from the moment she appeared at the airport. The petite athlete, who turns 19 on Friday, was one of the few who showed any semblance of emotion, flashing a sheepish grin at cameras as flashbulbs exploded around her both at the airport and the village.
Asked to comment on her visit, Ryom simply said, “I don’t talk before competitions.”
Pyongyang Olympics. Fatty did something his daddy could never do.
Flyingsword
6 years ago
The Pyongyang Games. Wow, commie moon really doing a job on South Korea.
setnaffa
6 years ago
There were pretty little girls in WW2 Germany and in the Soviet Union during the Cold War. One need not blame them for the crimes against humanity done by their leaders; but neither should we celebrate their propaganda value.
rocketman
6 years ago
How great would it be if there was at least one defection, but Moon probably would not allow that to happen!!
The leftist government of Moon hard at work.
Pyongyang Olympics. Fatty did something his daddy could never do.
The Pyongyang Games. Wow, commie moon really doing a job on South Korea.
There were pretty little girls in WW2 Germany and in the Soviet Union during the Cold War. One need not blame them for the crimes against humanity done by their leaders; but neither should we celebrate their propaganda value.
How great would it be if there was at least one defection, but Moon probably would not allow that to happen!!