{"id":14548,"date":"2018-01-17T16:06:30","date_gmt":"2018-01-17T16:06:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/2018\/01\/17\/north-and-south-koreas-warm-relations-over-ice-hockey\/"},"modified":"2018-01-17T16:06:30","modified_gmt":"2018-01-17T16:06:30","slug":"north-and-south-koreas-warm-relations-over-ice-hockey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/north-and-south-koreas-warm-relations-over-ice-hockey\/","title":{"rendered":"North And South Korea&#039;s Warm Relations Over Ice Hockey"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float:left\"><a class=\"colorbox\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/the1a.org\/shows\/2018-01-17\/north-and-south-koreas-warm-relations-over-ice-hockey?utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=sports\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/the1a.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/GettyImages-1372583.jpg\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>When North and South Korean athletes march out to the opening ceremony at next month&#8217;s Winter Olympics, they&#8217;ll do so <a class=\"colorbox\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/01\/17\/world\/asia\/north-south-korea-olympics.html?_r=0\">under a single flag<\/a>. And the two nations will field a women&#8217;s ice hockey team together as well.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a big diplomatic step, but <a class=\"colorbox\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2018\/01\/17\/asia\/north-south-korea-olympics-flag-intl\/index.html\">as CNN reports<\/a>, not everyone is excited about the development.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Kono called on the international community to be clear-eyed about North Korea&#8217;s motivations for participating in the talks, which have been hailed by some as the most significant thaw in ties in years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI believe that North Korea wants to buy some time to continue their nuclear and missile programs,\u201d Kono said at the meeting. \u201cIt&#8217;s not the time to ease pressure towards North Korea.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong><a class=\"colorbox\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/blockads.fivefilters.org\/\">Let&#8217;s block ads!<\/a><\/strong> <a class=\"colorbox\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/blockads.fivefilters.org\/acceptable.html\">(Why?)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"https:\/\/the1a.org\/shows\/2018-01-17\/north-and-south-koreas-warm-relations-over-ice-hockey?utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=sports\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"North And South Korea&#039;s Warm Relations Over Ice Hockey\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/the1a.org\/shows\/2018-01-17\/north-and-south-koreas-warm-relations-over-ice-hockey?utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=sports<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float:left\"><a class=\"colorbox\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/the1a.org\/shows\/2018-01-17\/north-and-south-koreas-warm-relations-over-ice-hockey?utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=sports\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/the1a.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/GettyImages-1372583.jpg\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>When North and South Korean athletes march out to the opening ceremony at next month&#8217;s Winter Olympics, they&#8217;ll do so <a class=\"colorbox\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/01\/17\/world\/asia\/north-south-korea-olympics.html?_r=0\">under a single flag<\/a>. And the two nations will field a women&#8217;s ice hockey team together as well.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a big diplomatic step, but <a class=\"colorbox\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2018\/01\/17\/asia\/north-south-korea-olympics-flag-intl\/index.html\">as CNN reports<\/a>, not everyone is excited about the development.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Kono called on the international community to be clear-eyed about North Korea&#8217;s motivations for participating in the talks, which have been hailed by some as the most significant thaw in ties in years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI believe that North Korea wants to buy some time to continue their nuclear and missile programs,\u201d Kono said at the meeting. \u201cIt&#8217;s not the time to ease pressure towards North Korea.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong><a class=\"colorbox\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/blockads.fivefilters.org\/\">Let&#8217;s block ads!<\/a><\/strong> <a class=\"colorbox\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/blockads.fivefilters.org\/acceptable.html\">(Why?)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[221],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14548\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}