Published>Thu, Feb 11 10 09:50 AM
The teams from North and South Korea will not march together at the Vancouver Olympics opening ceremony on Friday as they have done in previous Games, the International Olympic Committee said on Wednesday.
"They will not be marching together this time," an IOC official told Reuters.
South Korea and North Korea are technically still at war having ended their conflict in 1953 with no peace agreement.
They had entered the stadium together during the 2006 Turin Winter Games' opening fiesta in an effort to improve relations.
But worsening political ties since 2006 stopped them from repeating their joint march during the Summer Games in Beijing two years later as plans to take reconciliation a step further also stumbled on the selection procedure for a planned joint team.
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