The rival Koreas have agreed to form a unified Olympic team and have their athletes parade together for the first time in 11 years during the opening ceremony of next month's Winter Olympics? Do you think this will result in lowering tensions over the North's nuclear weapons program?

It’s neither the citizens nor athletes of those two countries who are producing tension over nuclear arms; it’s the inane leaders of the US and North Korea to blame for that.

Except Supreme Leader Kim Jong-Un is actually doing steps towards peace, unlike U.S. ... supreme leader. The only bad thing about it is how some athletes were pushed out of the team due to team's unification, but I hope that they understand that this is a work towards a better tomorrow and will not hold major grudges against anyone.

Same old same old!

NK and SK have been this way before.

Politics trumps (no pun intended) sport, and the Olympics are the prime example.

Pity the athletes who have little or no choices, who just work hard at what they do. Just hope something good comes out of their hard work, such as when Iraq unexpectedly won the Asia Cup soccer at a time of a bloody vindictive civil war.

Everyone is a bit sick of the status quo.

Posturing by politicians, will help nothing and change even less...

It's the insane NOK leader who is causing all of the issues. Dont lauch missles into international zones and no one will bother u. What u do in your country is your busness which the USA may not like but they will not interfere...

It's 'nice' we can temporarily overlook the threat that NK represents for those two weeks but, after the Olympics, the clock continues to tick. NK need to get out of its 1950s/60s spy games mindset (poisoning people at airports etc.) and that means Kim has to go, one way or another. The people of NK deserve better. It's just a matter or getting the message through to them. Again, one way or another.

The US will sabotage any lowering of tensions between South and North Korea as it is using this tension {which the US created} to justify US military bases in South Korea and Japan, as well as selling arms to both these countries.

They won’t pass the WADA testing. Competition at the Olympic caliber requires pedigrees in the specific sport played, an example of their failure would be the Southeast Asian Games in the men's 3m springboard event at the 2015 Singapore competition. がんばろ

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US doesn’t need to sabotage any relationship between Asian countries the majority of elders views speak for themselves.

It certainly won't if Japan and the US keep getting in the way.

What does NK want? A unified peninsular with the US gone. What does the US want? A chance to spend money on defense. Different motivations. The only solution is through dialogue. Trump needs to STFU and let the long term invested parties sort it out.

What does NK want? What does any black marketeer want?

What does NK want? A unified peninsular with the US gone.

No. what NK wants NOT a unified Korea. Unified Korea would mean the Kim dynasty thrown out of power and possibly years of human rights abuse and genocide revealed. There zero benefit for the Kim regime if unification is to occur.

I think what they want is to pretend to be working towards a unification and peace so that no country can justify attacking NK.

Its not the citizens for sure.

Pointless political posturing to boost the egos of SK leaders should not interfere with the right of sports people who have earned their places to represent their country by hard work and real ability, If NK sports people wish to participate then either come as NK or if a joint team then compete equaly for a place not parachuted in at the whim of some here today gone tomorrow politician.

North Korea is a closed dictatorship/rogue state. Things like this have nothing to do with changing North Korean politics. North Korea will only change if Kim is removed from power by coup led by military personnel who want to "normalize" the country.

Except Supreme Leader Kim Jong-Un is actually doing steps towards peace

...by creating weapons of mass destruction, testing them and killing their own people in the process, flying missiles over non-allies territories without any warnings, by starving their people and sending them to die across the ocean, etc. Yeah, that sounds like steps towards peace...

Trump may be a total jerk and immature but he hasn't done any of what the supreme blah does.

As for the question, maybe for a few weeks. But once the games are over things might go back to how they were before.

maybe for a few weeks. But once the games are over things might go back to how they were before.

No maybe about it, this is a standard tactic of the three stoog...er Kim's regimes, play nice and make all the right placatory noises while continuing in the same way and pushing forward with their military nuclear plans.

Stop indoctrination. Disband the Communist Party. Strip kingship from the Kim Family. And let the people go for freedom. Then and only then we can hope for peace. It's a long way to go.

It has been done before and we still have escalating problems. Or at least the illusion of escalation.

This may make matters worse as the barbarians have been let inside the castle walls.

I voted don't know. But what I do know is that it will do South Korea's medal tally no favours at all. When you put North and South Koreans into one team, like ice hockey, it's going to be a recipe for disaster. Imagine, competing with people who have a different way of thinking, who have trained under a different system, and most importantly, who you have NEVER met, that is not going to be bringing any medals home. Japan must be loving this.