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2016. 2020. 2024. North Korea competed as the Democratic People's Republic of Korea at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris from 26 July to 11 August 2024. North Korea's eleventh Summer Olympics appearance marked the official return of the nation to the sporting event after withdrawing from the games in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
North Korea's first Olympic appearance was in the 1964 Winter Olympics at Innsbruck, Austria. The nation participated in its first Summer Olympic Games eight years later at the 1972 Munich Olympics. Since then, the nation has appeared in every Summer Games, except when North Korea joined the Soviet-led boycott of the 1984 Summer Olympics, when ...
26 July – 11 August 2024: North Korea at the 2024 Summer Olympics [22] 31 July – More than 5,000 people in Sinuiju, Uiju and Chagang are reported stranded due to floods that inundate 4,100 houses and 3,000 hectares (7,410 acres) of farmland.
The 2018 Winter Olympics (Korean: 2018년 동계 올림픽, romanized: Icheon sip-pal nyeon Donggye Ollimpik), officially the XXIII Olympic Winter Games (French: Les XXIII es Jeux olympiques d'hiver; [B] Korean: 제23회 동계 올림픽, romanized: Jeisipsamhoe Donggye Ollimpik) and also known as PyeongChang 2018 (Korean: 평창2018, romanized: Pyeongchang Icheon sip-pal), were an ...
In 2022, Beijing became the first city to have hosted both the Summer and Winter Olympics. By 2034, eleven cities will have hosted the Olympic Games more than once: Athens (1896 and 2004 Summer Olympics), Paris (1900, 1924 and 2024 Summer Olympics), London (1908, 1948 and 2012 Summer Olympics), St. Moritz (1928 and 1948 Winter Olympics), Lake ...
July 31, 2024 at 9:39 AM. SAINT-DENIS, France (AP) — North Korea won the silver in the women’s synchronized 10-meter platform event to capture the nation's first ever Olympic diving medal ...
The Rungrado 1st of May Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium occupying an area of 20.7 hectares (51 acres) on Rungra Island, Pyongyang, North Korea. It opened on 1 May 1989, with its first major event being the 13th World Festival of Youth and Students. It is the second largest stadium in the world by seating capacity, after Narendra Modi Stadium ...
North Korea at the2016 Summer Olympics. North Korea, officially the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 5 to 21 August 2016. This was the nation's tenth appearance at the Summer Olympics . The Olympic Committee of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea sent the nation's ...