North Korean team arrives in Paris for 1st Summer Olympics since 2016

North Korean athletes arrived in Paris on Sunday for the Paris Olympics, marking the country's first participation in the Summer Games in eight years as Pyongyang chose not to send athletes to the Tokyo Games held in 2021 amid the COVID-19 pandemic.About a dozen North Korean athletes have qualified for the Paris Games in such sports as gymnastics, table tennis, boxing, wrestling and judo. The competitors were accompanied by North Korean sports minister Kim Il Guk.Pyongyang shut its borders to stem the spread of the coronavirus in early 2020, but returned to international sport about three y…READ FULL ARTICLE