VIRAL: NORTH-SOUTH KOREA OLYMPIC PODIUM SELFIE AT 2024 PARIS OLYMPICS

Table tennis players from North Korea and South Korea in the 2024 Paris Olympics are seen taking a selfie together on the medal podium hailed as a rare show of cross-border unity, this is after tensions between the two nations are at their highest point in history after nuclear-armed North Korea declared the South to be its principal enemy earlier this year.

South Korean table tennis player takes a selfie with teammate and North Korean went viral in South Korea (Photo courtesy of WANG Zhao/AFP)
After a mixed doubles medal ceremony at South Paris Arena Silver medalist, Lim Jonghoon from South Korea is the one taking the selfie together with gold medalists teammates Shin Yubin, China’s Chuqin Wang and Yingsha Sun, and silver medalists Jong Sik Ri and Kum Yong Kim from North Korea took a group photo.
Lim Jonghoon told Korean media, "I congratulated them when they were introduced as Silver medalists.”
Since 2016, it was the first time North Korea had been on an Olympic podium and after eight years, it was the country’s first Olympic medal settling for silver after a mixed-doubles defeat to the table tennis superpower.
While South Korea are now leading on Top 5 at the Olympic Games Paris 2024 with total of 11 Olympic medals, 5 golds, 3 silvers, and 3 bronzes.
South Korea seems to be delighted to see the photo as South Korean broadcasters repeatedly run videos of the image as numerous commentators are reflecting on the significance of this rare moment of unity.
One of the South Korean leading and widely read daily newspapers said, "A selfie with both Koreas' national flags and a Samsung phone.”
“This is the true spirit of the Olympics.”
Source: Agence France-Presse
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