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North and South Korea join forces at world championships
North Korea and South Korea teams pose together for a group photo after deciding to combine their teams to avoid playing against each other in the Quarter Finals of the World Team Table Tennis Championships at Halmstad Arena in Halmstad, Sweden
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TABLE tennis diplomacy is working for North and South Korea, who have combined their women’s teams at the table tennis world championships.
The International Table Tennis Federation says the neighbouring nations’ women’s teams declined to play each other in the quarter-finals today in Sweden. Instead, they asked to join together in a combined team which would advance to tomorrow’s semi-finals.
ITTF president Thomas Weikert says the Korean teams “received a standing ovation from the delegates who showed their sign of support to this historic move.”
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