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China-Japan-Koreas
Pudgy Ups Pressure Over Asian Games
2014-07-21
North Korean fat boy leader Kim Jong-un on Sunday said his country's participation in the Asian Games in South Korea will help improve cross-border relations.

"Participation in the Asian Games will provide important momentum for improving inter-Korean relations and removing distrust," the state-run [North] Korean Central News Agency quoted him as saying.

The remarks came after talks between the two Koreas broke down last Thursday over the question who should pay for hundreds of North Korean athletes and cheerleaders to take part.

After watching a soccer match, Pudgy Kim said, "It is our principled stand that the inviolable sports should not be a political bargaining chip of the undesirable forces."

He indirectly accused the South of deliberately scuppering the talks. Earlier, North Korean propaganda organs blamed the South for the rupture of the talks, saying it displayed an "improper attitude" to the talks.

The North Korean delegation had insisted Seoul provide free accommodation for 350 North Korean athletes, and for the same number of cheerleaders who were to sleep on a North Korean ship docking in Incheon harbor.
That's 700 mouths the Norks don't have to feed for two weeks. Has to help...
When Seoul questioned why the numbers had shot up from 150 in the initial approach and offered to arrange accommodation under "international practice" -- i.e. that the North Korean regime should pay for their accommodation -- the North Koreans stormed out.
Low blood sugar makes people cranky. Did the South Koreans remember to provide the usual catering?
Posted by:Steve White

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