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North Korea competed as the Democratic People's Republic of Korea at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris from 26 July to 11 August 2024. North Korea's eleventh Summer Olympics appearance marked the official return of the nation to the sporting event after withdrawing from the games in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
During the 1998-2007 Sunshine Policy era, North Korea and South Korea symbolically marched as one team at the opening ceremonies of the 2000, [2] 2004, and 2006 Olympics, but competed separately. North Korea sent 22 athletes to compete in five sports at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea .
On 9 January 2018, North Korea agreed in negotiations with South Korea to send both athletes and a delegation to the Winter Olympics. [ 2 ] The teams representing North Korea and South Korea entered the Opening Ceremony marching under the Korean Unification Flag , while in women's ice hockey there was a single united Korean team .
And at the 2016 Rio Olympics, another selfie taken by South Korean gymnast Lee Eun-ju and her North Korean counterpart Hong Un-jong went viral and was hailed as a testament to how sports ...
Female North Korean athletes participating in the Winter Games arrived have arrived in South Korea, joining their neighbors for a unified Olympics showing.
North Korea is banned from participating in the Winter Olympics in Beijing next year as punishment for skipping this summer’s Tokyo Games.
In English, the team is named Korea, a term shared between North Korea and South Korea. In East Asian languages where the names of the countries are significantly different (North Korea's 조선/朝鮮/ Chosŏn versus South Korea's 한국/韓國/ Hanguk ), the team name uses an English transliteration.
However, the Russian Olympic Committee was banned, and Russian athletes competed as independent athletes with no national flag and anthem, due to doping sanctions., [41] On March 28, 2023, it was announced that Russian and Belarusian athletes compete as Individual Neutral Athletes and the abbreviation AIN, and North Korea returned to Paris 2024.