Korean Olympic demands reduced
NZPA-Reuter Tokyo North Korea has lessened its demands for participation in the 1988 summer Olympics. Chin Chung Guk, vicechairman of the North Korean Olympic Committee, announced that Pyongyang would propose to Seoul that North Korea hold five full Olympic events and one part event, the official (North) Korean Central News Agency reported. d A Previously, NortluMKorea 4ad demanded eigß full
events out of the 23 Olympic sports, including such star attractions as gymnastics, boxing and wrestling. Under the new proposal, North Korea is asking for table tennis, archery, women's volleyball, soccer and one unspecified sport, along with one part event to be shared with South Korea. South Korea agreed last year to let Pyongyang stage the full programme of table tennis and archery, and jjarts of cycling and soccer, T Mr Chin was quot« as
saying North Korea wanted to discuss the proposal with South Korea before the next Olympic talks between the two sides, scheduled for September 17. "If the South Korean side opposes even this new flexible proposal of ours, this will make clear before the people of the world that the South Korean side tries to use the Olympic Games for its insidious political aim,” Mr Chin said.
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