In a peculiar new development, North Korean competitors Ri Jong Sik and Kim Kum Yong, who won silver decorations for their country at the new Paris Olympics, are going through a course of ‘philosophical assessment’, as per a report in The Message.
The cycle is said to most recent a month and is pointed toward ‘purifying’ the group of ‘tainting’. The survey cycle would supposedly incorporate going through each part of the competitors’ way of behaving at the Olympics, and assuming they are found to have acted in a manner that goes against Kim Jong Un’s system, they could confront disciplinary activity.
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In any case, it’s not satisfactory from the report whether the outcome could be extreme disciplines for the competitors or a basic admonition and a request to do some self-reflection.
As per the Message, the two competitors went under government investigation after they were seen ‘smiling’ close by unfamiliar contenders, including South Korea’s Lim Jong-hoon. A selfie taken from Lim’s telephone with the grinning North Korean and Chinese contingent had turned into a web sensation via virtual entertainment and was generally viewed to act as an illustration of sportsmanship defeating cross-line threats.
“On the off chance that they interfaced with competitors from different nations, they should firmly ponder their activities to stay away from possible political or regulatory discipline,” the Message revealed a source as saying.
Strikingly, North Korean competitors had purportedly been given ‘extraordinary directions’ to not associate with South Korean or other unfamiliar competitors in Paris and cautioned about the repercussions of not following this request.
In any case, it hasn’t forever been this way among North and South Korea at the Olympics. The marquee occasion has given a chance to think about the condition of strategy between the two countries previously. For instance, during a moderately warm time of relations between the two nations at the 2018 Winter Olympics, competitors from the two nations walked together at the initial function and, surprisingly, handled a bound together ladies’ ice hockey group.