A ROGUE STATE MAKES TEMPORARY PEACE
North and South Korea are putting their differences aside—don’t expect it to last
by CHARLIE CAMPBELL
Feb 12, 2018
2 minutes
FROM THE 9TH CENTURY B.C., athletes and spectators traveling to the Olympics were protected by a truce that stilled feuding states during the Games. The ekecheiria was history’s earliest attempt to separate sport from politics. Although tarnished by Cold War boycotts in the 1980s, the notion
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