- Title: North Korea’s ice hockey team 'happy' to participate in joint team
- Date: 25th January 2018
- Summary: JINCHEON, SOUTH KOREA (JANUARY 25, 2018) (REUTERS) BANNER READING (Korean): "PYEONGCHANG OLYMPICS ICE HOCKEY JOINT TEAM OF SOUTH AND NORTH KOREA/ WELCOME NORTH KOREAN PLAYERS" MASCOT OF PYEONGCHANG WINTER OLYMPICS 'SOOHORANG' ON BANNER HOLDING KOREAN PENINSULA FLAG
- Embargoed: 8th February 2018 05:48
- Keywords: North Korea ice hockey arrival South Korea Pyeongchang Winter Olympics
- Location: JINCHEON, SOUTH KOREA
- City: JINCHEON, SOUTH KOREA
- Country: South Korea
- Topics: Olympics,Sport
- Reuters ID: LVA0037ZM00G5
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- Story Text: North Korea's female ice hockey team arrived at South Korea's National Training Centre in Jincheon on Thursday (January 25) to prepare for Pyeongchang Winter Olympics as a joint team.
The delegation included 12 North Korean players who were warmly welcomed by South Korean players, as the two Koreas will form a combined women's ice hockey team to compete in the Games.
Pak Chol Ho, coach of the North Korean team, said they were happy to join the team and would do their best. The delegation had crossed the heavily guarded border into South Korea earlier on Thursday.
Under an agreement worked out during the first official talks between the two Koreas in two years, the joint team will wear the same jerseys and march under a unified peninsula flag at the Games' opening ceremony on February 9. - Copyright Holder: REUTERS
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