North Korea has opened its national winter games, state media confirmed, with the isolated nation's athletes conspicuously ...

Bissau, along with the United Arab Emirates (UAE) from the Middle East, are making their Winter Olympic debuts, while North Korea has not received an invitation. The exclusion is not due to political ...

But few athletes may have a more impactful presence next month at the games, which are being promoted as a chance to ease political and nuclear tensions on the divided Korean Peninsula after North ...

"Amid pressing international conflicts, the Olympics is one of the most significant geopolitical events of the year." ...

The 2026 Winter Olympics is underway. Two countries, however, were barred from participating in the field. Those nations include Russia and Belarus.

North Korea, which failed to secure a berth for the 2026 Milan-Cortina d’Ampezzo Winter Olympics, is holding the "2026 National Winter Sports Competition" at Mount Paektu. According to the Korean ...

The media, like most all industries, can at times fall prey to groupthink. The latest example: the coverage of North Korean tyrant Kim Jong-un’s sister, Kim Yo-jong (pictured above). Critics from the ...

If one of the athletes wanted to defect, the time is right -- but that's not likely to happen, experts say. "One of the main reasons North Korean athletes don't defect is because of their families ...

North Koreas ceremonial head of state will visit the South this week and attend the Winter Olympics opening ceremony as the divided peninsula witnesses a rare thaw after a year of high tensions over ...

The joint North and South Korean women’s ice hockey team competed together for the first time Sunday in a friendly match against Sweden, under a controversial Olympics unity deal. It was the first and ...