(N&S.Korea): For all the buzz and political intrigue, North Korea's participation at next month's Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang will live up to the old saying: "It's the taking part that counts".Their representation at the Games is still to be confirmed, but may be limited to two figure skaters.
Perhaps surprisingly, there are sports North Korea is pretty good at and in some cases even dominates.Take the summer Olympics. They have won far more medals than bigger countries like India and Nigeria - 54 in total.
Most of their Olympic glory has come in weightlifting and their athletes hold three world and two Olympic records.At the last summer Games in Rio de Janeiro in 2016, they won seven medals, including two golds, putting them about halfway up the table.
North Korea's women's football team is ranked 11th in the world by FIFA. And although they were surprisingly knocked out of qualifying for the 2019 World Cup, they won the East Asia Football Federation Championship in December last year. That success followed winning the under-20s World Cup in 2016.
North Korea is expected to send a taekwondo demonstration team to the Winter Olympics and that is not a surprise because it's a sport where they dominate. Well, at least one branch of it.Unfortunately it's not the branch chosen by the Olympics, or by South Korea, but a version under rules governed by the International Taekwon-Do Federation (ITF).
At a recent major international competition held in Pyongyang, North Korea won 22 gold medals and the next best performing country was Russia, with seven.
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