When South Korea hosts the Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang next month, a combined North Korea-South Korea women's hockey team — the countries' first-ever joint team — will attract a lot of attention. So will the sight of athletes from the two Koreas, divided for some 70 years, marching together in the opening ceremony on Feb. 9. But even before recent border negotiations led to these shows of unity, the only North Korean athletes who qualified for the games — a figure skating pair — were already making headlines. With International Olympic Committee approval, they will likely compete in Pyeongchang, despite missing a registration deadline. Most North Koreans are unable to leave the totalitarian country, but skaters Ryom Tae Ok, 18, and Kim Ju Sik, 25, have competed around the world. Last year in Japan, they skated their way to a bronze medal at the Asian Games. They also competed in last year's World Figure Skating Championships in Helsinki. And in Germany, they placed sixth in an event
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