Olympic athletes from North Korea They are the only ones of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games who do not receive as a gift a phone of the South Korean brand Samsunghe said on Thursday to the AFP el International Olympic Committee (IOC).
Official sponsor of the Paris Games, Samsung Electronics announced the distribution to “around 17 thousand athletes” of a special ‘Games’ edition of its Galaxy Z Flip 6 phone.
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But no North Korean participant “has received a Samsung phone,” he told the AFP the IOC, without giving further details.
Hours earlier, the South Korean government said the move could violate United Nations sanctions against North Korea, primarily over its nuclear weapons development program.
The foreign minister stressed that a Security Council resolution prohibits “the direct or indirect supply, sale or transfer to North Korea of any industrial machinery,” including smartphones.
This reminder was made after the information advanced by Radio Free Asiaa US-funded outlet, claimed that North Korean athletes had received the phones.
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The Galaxy Z Flip 6 was already in the news on July 31. Table tennis players from South Korea, North Korea and the champions from China took an epic photo after winning medals in Paris 2024. The image went viral in a few minutes.
The above, in the context of permanent tension between South Korea and North Korea, which are technically still at war.
South Korean Lim Jong-hoon, bronze medallist in mixed doubles alongside Shin Yu-bin, is the one who takes the phone to take the symbolic selfie with the other medallists, Chinese champions Wang Chuqin and Sun Yingsha and, above all, North Korean silver medallists Ri Jong Sik and Kim Kum Yong.
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2024-08-15 06:44:38