“So we had our own”, Aussie aerial skier and two-time Olympian David Morris said in his video post to social media.
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The Trump impersonator donned the red “USA” hat and low-hanging red tie often favoured by the president at his rallies, while his partner wore the North Korean leader’s trademark slicked-back bouffant hairstyle.
She and Kim Yong Nam, the North’s 90-year-old nominal head of state, were seated behind Moon and his wife, while Mr Pence and his wife were seated beside the Moons and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.
The two are easily confused, but there is a world of difference between them: Pyongyang is the capital of nuclear-armed North Korea, while Pyeongchang is the South Korean region hosting the Winter Olympics.
Fears over a potential cyber-attack, particularly from North Korea, were prominent in the build-up to the Games.
But by the time the Opening Ceremony began on February 9, the 35,000-seat Olympic Stadium in PyeongChang was packed with spectators.
The two Koreas marched in behind a white flag that was emblazoned with a map of the Korean peninsula depicted in blue.
“President Moon responded by saying that the two sides should work on establishing the right conditions to realize the meeting”, the spokesperson said.
Up the road, however, an elderly husband and wife, each draped in the South Korean flag, denounced Moon as a “fake president”.
“There is a faction that tries to turn this country communist”. In January 1968, Kim Yo Jong’s grandfather, founding North Korean president Kim Il Sung, sent a squad of North Korean commandos to Seoul who tried unsuccessfully to kill then-president Park Chung-hee.
Lead by freestyle skier, Beau-James Wells, the New Zealand team wore black during the parade on Friday night (Saturday morning NZT).
Angel Mancari came all the way from the US state of Alaska to support her daughter, Rosie Mancari, who’s competing in the Ladies’ Snowboard Cross. South Korean participants included senior officials Jeong Eui-yong, Jo Myong-gyoon and Im Jong-suk – the chief presidential secretary.
A sense of peace built within the Olympic Stadium as the event neared conclusion.
They talked of peace, every one of them, these officials of Olympics and nations.
Wary that the North is trying to drive a wedge between Washington and Seoul, he made a point of having no part of any of the North’s brand of for-Koreans-by-Koreans detente.
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“We are stronger than all the forces that want to divide us”, declared Olympic president Thomas Bach.
