A man sanitizes his hands at the entrance to the media cafeteria in Gangneung, South Korea, on Wednesday. South Korean authorities deployed 900 military personnel at the Pyeongchang Olympics after the security force was depleted by an outbreak of norovirus. (photo Canadian Press via APBEIJING: North Korea has ruled out the possibility of talks with the United States during the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics in South Korea, the North's official media reported on Thursday. "And that is that North Korea must once and for all abandon its nuclear weapons program and ballistic missile ambitions." "North Korea can have a better future than the militaristic path and the path of provocation and confrontation that it's on," he said.

Source: Bangkok Post February 08, 2018 04:07 UTC