OT Koreas to have joint Olympic Team?

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    http://www.espn.com/olympics/winter...their-first-joint-olympic-team-march-together

    As the article states, this has been done before in 1991 (for the World Table Tennis Championships and the World Juniors for soccer).

    As a cynical dick military planner type, I'm wondering a) does KJU really think 60+M South Koreans would accept his rule as "Absolute Leader", and b) if he doesn't, why on earth would he agree to a path toward unification, when in reality that would likely mean exile for him at the least and war crimes tribunals at the worst? And if he is just fooling around, what's the diversion diverting from?

    Still, more peace is generally good. Not 100%, though (ask Neville Chamberlain about Moravia Czechoslovakia)
     
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    I don't see anything about him agreeing to a path toward unification. He may be trying to facilitate a path toward peaceful relations between a permanent North and South Korea. A unified Olympic team makes sense in that context, as it forges some cultural bonds between the two.
     
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    Heh? It has only been 70 years or so since they split! I think they are still Koreans.
     
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    I can see @riverman being part of a joint team.

    Didn't know rolling joints was now an olympic event.
     
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    KJU just wants North Korea to be in the olympics. Afterwards he will threaten everyone again and return his normal crazy dictator self
     
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