{"id":5430,"date":"2018-11-02T17:16:27","date_gmt":"2018-11-02T13:16:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/?p=5430"},"modified":"2018-11-02T17:16:27","modified_gmt":"2018-11-02T13:16:27","slug":"are-north-and-south-korea-going-to-co-host-2032-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/2018\/11\/02\/are-north-and-south-korea-going-to-co-host-2032-olympics\/","title":{"rendered":"Are North and South Korea going to co-host 2032 Olympics?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>North and South Korea agreed at a meeting on Friday to send a letter to the International Olympic Committee, confirming that they want to co-host the 2032 Summer Games, they said in a joint statement.<\/p>\n<p>Sports officials from both sides held talks to discuss ways of expanding sports exchanges. The statement also said they agreed to form a combined team to compete in the men&#8217;s Handball World Championship in Germany next year.<\/p>\n<p>South Korean President Moon Jae-in and North Korean Leader Kim Jong Un agreed to pursue the joint Olympics bid at their summit in Pyongyang in September.<\/p>\n<p>Athletes from North and South Korea marched under a unified peninsula flag at the opening ceremony of the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics earlier this year, and the two Koreas have seen a significant thaw in tensions since.<\/p>\n<p>Indonesia and India have also expressed an interest in hosting the Summer Games in 2032.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>North and South Korea agreed at a meeting on Friday to send a letter to the International Olympic Committee, confirming that they want to co-host the 2032 Summer Games, they said in a joint statement. Sports officials from both sides held talks to discuss ways of expanding sports exchanges. The statement also said they agreed &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5432,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5430"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5434,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5430\/revisions\/5434"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}