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The Mar 25 meeting also discussed ways to develop professional sports technologies, earn more medals at international competitions and expand public sports activities over the next five years, the ministry said. Kim, known to be a fan of US basketball, has publicly displayed his ambitions to promote professional sports. North Korea says it has not had any coronavirus cases. READ: North Korea executed people, shut capital to stop COVID-19, South Korea agency says Until this year, North Korea had participated in every summer Olympics since 1992 and nearly every edition since its first appearance in 1972, save the Los Angeles 1984 Games when it was part.
South Korean President Moon Jae-in, right, and. North Korean athletes also competed in alpine skiing. A unified women's ice hockey team included players from both North and South Korea. As in 20, North and South Korean athletes marched together at the opening ceremonies. "The committee decided not to join the 32nd Olympics Games to protect athletes from the global health crisis caused by the coronavirus," it said. After the Olympics, North Korea was able to have a summit with South Korea in April 2018 and a summit with the U.S., the first in history, in June. North Korea sent 22 athletes to compete in five sports at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea. The North made its decision to pull out of Tokyo at a meeting of its Olympic committee and Sports Minister Kim Il Guk on Mar 25, the ministry said on its website. "We regret it could not happen," it added in a statement. South Korea's Unification Ministry in charge of inter-Korean affairs said Seoul had hoped the Tokyo Olympics would be a chance to "foster peace and reconciliation between the two Koreas". Tensions on the Korean Peninsula rose last month when the North resumed missile tests, although both sides said after the launches that they wanted to continue dialogue. When South Korea hosted the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics in 2018, Kim sent his sister to head the country's delegation, athletes from both sides marched under a unified flag at the opening ceremony, and fielded a combined women's ice hockey team. The North's withdrawal from Tokyo is also a setback for plans, agreed at a 2018 summit between Moon and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, to pursue a joint Korean bid to host the 2032 Games. READ: North Korea to receive nearly 2 million AstraZeneca vaccine doses South Korean President Moon Jae-in had hoped the two countries, still technically at war after their 1950-53 conflict ended in a truce, not a peace treaty, could field a combined team in Tokyo and rebuild momentum for improved relations. It will be the first time North Korea has missed a Summer Olympics since it boycotted Seoul in 1988 amid the Cold War.
SEOUL: North Korea will not join the Tokyo Olympics this year due to COVID-19 concerns, the country's sports ministry said on Tuesday (Apr 6), dashing South Korean hopes the Games could be a catalyst to revive stalled peace talks.
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