On thin ice

摘要

WHEN Moon Jae-in, South Korea's president, agreed to allow North Korean athletes not only to attend the Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, but also to march alongside South Korea's team at the opening ceremony on February 9th, and to form a unified women's ice-hockey team with the South, he knew not all South Koreans would be happy. The outcry from conservatives who see the northern regime as an implacable foe was predictable.