At the recently concluded Games, South Korean athletes and journalists said North Koreans refused to engage with them. Some even avoided customary handshakes or photo sessions atop the podium.
Gold medalist North Korea's Song Kukhyang, center, silver medalist North Korea's Jong Chunhui, left, and bronze medalist South Korea's Kim Suhyeon, right, gesture during the medal ceremony of women's 76kg group A weightlifting competition at the 2022 Asian Games in Hangzhou, China, on Oct. 5, 2023.
Professor Jung Giwoong of Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, who studies inter-Korean relations and sports diplomacy, says this was North Korea's attitude toward the South during the Games:"We are strangers now, not brothers." During the Games, the North made another unusual move by referring to South Korea as"puppet" in its state media coverage of an inter-Korean women's soccer match. It has used the term before to criticize the South's relationship with the United States in political contexts, but not as often in sports.
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