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Related: About this forumNorth Korea triggers 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics security scare
http://www.dw.com/en/north-korea-triggers-2018-pyeongchang-winter-olympics-security-scare/a-40649691North Korea triggers 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics security scare
Austria's head of the national Olympic Committee Karl Stoss said on Friday that it could envisage staying away from the Pyeongchang games next February in South Korea. "If the situation worsens and the security of our athletes is no longer guaranteed, we will not go to South Korea," Stoss said.
His comments followed a warning from France's Sports Minister Laura Flessel on Thursday: "If this gets worse and we do not have our security assured, then our French team will stay here."
The German foreign ministry issued a statement saying the security question and the possibility of keeping the German team at home would be addressed "in good time." Pyeongchang is only 80 kilometers (50 miles) from South Korea's frontier with the north. The games are scheduled for February 9-25.
Lithuania's Olympic Committee echoed Germany's response as spokeswoman Ieva Kutkaite said on Friday: "There is still a lot of time left until the Olympics Winter Games so that there is no need now for any decision." She said her committee would follow the recommendations of the International Olympic Committee (IOC).
Flessel's comments came after IOC President Thomas Bach said: "there is not even a hint that there is a threat for security of the Games in the context of tensions between North Korea and some other countries." The IOC is continuing to monitor the situation on the Korean Peninsula.
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North Korea triggers 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics security scare (Original Post)
nitpicker
Sep 2017
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That is just begging for North Korea to attack Guam and Seoul during the Olympics
Not Ruth
Sep 2017
#5
No. NKorea's beef is with the US, not with the rest of the world. . . nt
Bernardo de La Paz
Sep 2017
#6
spicysista
(1,663 posts)1. This is why I'm still awake....
raven mad
(4,940 posts)2. Please do NOT stay away.
Send the orange one to New Jersey. Which, if you've seen the Pine Barrens, is kind of a neat place. But keep it (the orange one) away from NK, and they'll have a decent Olympics.
Not Ruth
(3,613 posts)3. It is safer to cancel or move this particular Olympics
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,011 posts)4. It is not advisable to give in to terrorists out of overblown fears.
There will be lots of time before the Games for the situation to heat up or cool down. With tensions at their current level, the Games should go ahead if they were starting this week.
If 20 million residents of Seoul can live within artillery range (within 20 miles of the border), as they do every day, then the Games can happen 50 miles from the border.
Not Ruth
(3,613 posts)5. That is just begging for North Korea to attack Guam and Seoul during the Olympics
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,011 posts)6. No. NKorea's beef is with the US, not with the rest of the world. . . nt