The US says it will oppose any move by South Korea to extend financial backing to North Korea’s national team if it participates in the upcoming 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, according to a South Korean press report.
UPI, in picking up the story, says a senior Trump administration official told Segye Ilbo, a Korean-language newspaper owned by the Unification Church, that a Blue House decision to offer financial support to North Korean athletes would be opposed because it would violate the spirit of the UN sanctions against Pyongyang.
The source reportedly brought up financial support previously provided to North Korea by the South, including US$5 million during the Sydney Olympics in 2000.
Despite the opposition to funding, President Trump and South Korean President Moon Jae-in agreed on Thursday to postpone joint military drills during the Winter Games.
US warmongering, again.
The U.S. is showing itself to be both mean and common, and making a
large number of enemies in the process. This is what small, ignorant minds
do, and we have a host of them in our present governmeny.
North Korea should just boycott the Winter Olympics this time.
Russia and Yemen should do the same (for different reasons).
War and terrorism are the worst forms of human rights abuse and completely undemocratic.
UN should come up with another resolution to allow Korean to help each other in the winter Olympic.