Team idea folds
NZPA-Reuter Seoul Attempts by North and South Korea to form a joint team for the Los Angeles Olympics appeared to have collapsed yesterday after the north failed to respond to Seoul’s call for renewed talks, sports officials said. “With only one day left until the deadline for the registration of our athletes with the Olympic organising committee, our hopes for the joint team have now been virtually dashed by Pyongyang’s intransigence,”
the South Korean chief negotiator, Kim Chong Kyu, told NZPA-Reuter. He said North Korea ignored a proposal to hold the fourth round of their sports talks yesterday at the Panmunjom border village. The offer was delivered to the north on Tuesday, but Pyongyang did not reply. “It was our last-minute bid to form a single team for the Los Angeles Olympics, and we will have to send in our entry separately,” the negotiator said.
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