{"id":66529,"date":"2024-09-02T14:33:46","date_gmt":"2024-09-02T05:33:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/sep\/02\/north-korean-table-tennis-selfie-paris-olympics-south-korea-punishment"},"modified":"2024-09-02T14:33:46","modified_gmt":"2024-09-02T05:33:46","slug":"north-korean-table-tennis-players-may-be-punished-for-olympic-podium-selfie-with-rivals-from-south","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=66529","title":{"rendered":"North Korean table tennis players may be punished for Olympic podium selfie with rivals from South"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kim Kum-yong and Ri Jong-sik reportedly placed under \u2018ideological scrutiny\u2019 and could face punishment if they fail to criticise inappropriate behaviour<\/p>\n<p>For most observers, it was proof of sport\u2019s ability, if only for a fleeting moment, to bring people together \u2013 even when they live on opposite sides of one of the world\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/jun\/27\/north-south-korea-dmz-balloons-tensions\">most heavily armed borders<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But one of the most celebrated images of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/olympic-games-2024\">Paris Olympics<\/a> \u2013 a selfie taken by medal-winning table tennis players from either side of the divided Korean peninsula \u2013 appears to have landed the North Korea duo in trouble back home.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/sep\/02\/north-korean-table-tennis-selfie-paris-olympics-south-korea-punishment\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kim Kum-yong and Ri Jong-sik reportedly placed under \u2018ideological scrutiny\u2019 and could face punishment if they fail to criticise inappropriate behaviourFor most observers, it was proof of sport\u2019s ability, if only for a fleeting moment, to bring people t&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":151,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,40,3138,222],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-north-korea","category-paris-olympic-games-2024","category-south-korea"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/151"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66529"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66530,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66529\/revisions\/66530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}