South Korean fans chanting, "We are one" and wearing shirts with the unification flag emblazoned on the front packed into a freezing ice hockey arena on Sunday to cheer on the joint Korean women's team in a tune-up for this month's Winter Olympics. Critics said adding North Korean players to the South's roster at the last minute would mean missed opportunities for home players and could hurt team chemistry. "CLOSER TO PEACE"The International Olympic Committee said 12 North Korea players would join the South's 23-player squad. Ahead of the game, conservative groups held protests and tore up a North Korean flag. "The unified team is politically contaminated," 58-year-old Cho Young-hwan said, calling Moon "the puppet" of the North Korean leader.

Source: dna February 05, 2018 13:38 UTC