{"id":2732,"date":"2017-09-22T19:26:14","date_gmt":"2017-09-22T23:26:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/unstudies\/?p=2732"},"modified":"2017-09-26T16:40:44","modified_gmt":"2017-09-26T20:40:44","slug":"could-the-south-korean-olympic-winter-games-in-february-help-ease-political-tensions-on-the-korean-peninsula","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/unstudies\/2017\/09\/22\/could-the-south-korean-olympic-winter-games-in-february-help-ease-political-tensions-on-the-korean-peninsula\/","title":{"rendered":"Could the South Korean Olympic Winter Games in February help ease political tensions on the Korean peninsula?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">IOC President Bach met at the UN with\u00a0<span style=\"color: #ff0000\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/winter-sports\/41330529\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">South Korean President Moon at the UN<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0<\/span>on Tuesday and is\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/news\/nation-world\/article173639541.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">confident that the Pyeongchang 2018 Games will go on<\/a><\/strong>.\u00a0 Earlier they agreed that the Games would\u00a0be<strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.insidethegames.biz\/articles\/1048095\/bach-tells-acting-south-korean-president-how-pyeongchang-2018-could-unite-country\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8220;a great opportunity to bring all Korean people together.\u201d<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">The\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/english.hani.co.kr\/arti\/PRINT\/812003.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">UN Olympic Truce resolution<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>for 2018 will be adopted in New York on November 13.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">The Olympic Truce is a creative diplomatic measure to\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.un.org\/en\/events\/olympictruce\/background.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">keep us on the playing field<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>instead of the battle field.\u00a0 The Truce\u2019s track record has been impressive on the peninsula.\u00a0\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.wilsoncenter.org%2Fpublication%2Fsport-and-politics-the-korean-peninsula-north-korea-and-the-1988-seoul-olympics&amp;data=01%7C01%7Chugh.dugan%40shu.edu%7Cf1b780c40adc4e85289008d4fbe67e64%7C51f07c2253b744dfb97ca13261d71075%7C1&amp;sdata=syBGY%2BjF3Pcy2cmlqtyojKFhtoUDIuLY0qCb0ykNbYk%3D&amp;reserved=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Overcoming steep hurdles<\/a><\/strong>, North Korea participated at the Seoul 1988 Games.\u00a0 Here is video of the two\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=9P1_SWj7Fa0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Koreas joined under one flag at the Sydney 2000 Games<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">I am promoting the Olympic Truce for Pyeongchang which I discussed it in an interview about North Korea on China TV last night (<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=lnK_vnexUEM&amp;sns=em\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">watch here<\/a><\/strong>).<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Please follow the\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/media\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">media<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0attention to this via\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/olympictruce\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">www.twitter.com\/olympictruce<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IOC President Bach met at the UN with\u00a0South Korean President Moon at the UN\u00a0on Tuesday and is\u00a0confident that the Pyeongchang 2018 Games will go on.\u00a0&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/unstudies\/2017\/09\/22\/could-the-south-korean-olympic-winter-games-in-february-help-ease-political-tensions-on-the-korean-peninsula\/\">Continue Reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Could the South Korean Olympic Winter Games in February help ease political tensions on the Korean peninsula?<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2428,"featured_media":2485,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,315],"tags":[279,296,323,287,294,285],"class_list":["post-2732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blogposts","category-hugh-dugan","tag-shu_un_studies","tag-unshu","tag-olympics","tag-olympictruce","tag-profhughdugan","tag-shudiplomacy","entry"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/unstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/unstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/unstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/unstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2428"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/unstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2732"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/unstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2737,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/unstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2732\/revisions\/2737"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/unstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/unstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/unstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/unstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}