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North and South Korea will field a single joint team for the 2008 Olympics, South Korea’s news agency reported this week. The two countries had discussed competing jointly several times in the past few years, but talks always broke down. This time, South Korean officials said, they have worked out many of the details. “We hope that sending a joint team for the Olympics will help contribute to peace and reconciliation between South and North Korea,” Baek Seung-il, a spokesman for South Korea’s Olympic committee, told The New York Times. The united team will compete under the name “Korea,” with a new flag showing a map of the whole, undivided peninsula.
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