According to Agence France-Presse reported on February 1 Japan, South Korea and North Korea are still in a state of war in a strict sense, because after the war of 1950- 1953, they signed an armistice agreement instead of a peace treaty. According to Korean law, it is illegal to display North Korea's red, white and blue flag.
However, the IOC requires all participating countries to display their national symbols. To this end, the Korean procuratorate allows exceptions in Olympic-related places such as award ceremonies and athletes' residences.
According to the report, the organizers of Pyeongchang Winter Olympic Organizing Committee said that the special approval order came into effect when the Olympic Village officially opened on 1 day, and the North Korean flag was officially raised-one day later than other flags. Starting from the 5th, a formal ceremony will be held in the Olympic Village to welcome athletes from all participating countries, and the national flag will be raised again and the national anthem will be played.
According to Yonhap News Agency's February 1 report, the Pyeongchang Winter Olympic Organizing Committee said that according to the usual practice of the International Olympic Committee, the national flag of other countries was raised by ceremonial soldiers the day before the opening of the Athletes' Village, while the national flag of North Korea was raised by ordinary citizens on the opening day, so as not to violate the National Security Law and cause controversy. This is the "human * * * flag" raised by South Korea in international sports events after four years.
It is reported that North Korea's vice sports minister 1 will lead the North Korea Winter Olympics sports delegation to fly to South Korea to participate in the preliminaries. The North Korean sports delegation consists of 32 people, headed by Yuan, including athletes 10, coaches 3 and players 18.
Agence France-Presse reported in February 1 Sunday that the DPRK delegation arrived in Gangneung, located on the east coast of South Korea, eight days before the opening of the PyeongChang Winter Olympics. Three cross-country skiers, three alpine skiers, two short track speed skaters and two figure skaters arrived in South Korea, and they will represent North Korea. The delegation had previously taken a very rare direct charter flight between the DPRK and the ROK.
According to Yonhap News Agency's February 1 report, South Korea's Unification Ministry spokesman Park Tae-hyun said on February 1 that the performance fee of the Korean art troupe visiting Korea at the opening of the Winter Olympics was being calculated, and the ROK would not pay the performance fee to the DPRK. When asked whether the ROK and the DPRK will jointly perform, Bai Taixian replied that the ROK and the DPRK have not yet agreed on a performance plan.
The report pointed out that some foreign media analysts said that there was no camping tent in the military parade training ground near Pyongyang, indicating that the military parade on the 8 th Army Day was reduced. Bai Taixuan said that there is no opportunity to negotiate with the DPRK on this and will pay attention to relevant trends.