Working the crowd: A North Korean brass band performing before the friendly basketball game at Ryugyong Jong Ju Yong Gymnasium in Pyongyang. — AP
SEOUL: North and South Korea joined forces for their first basketball friendly in 15 years amid a warming of relations since the Winter Olympics in the South and easing tensions over the North’s nuclear and missile programmes.
Women athletes from the traditional foes put political differences aside to form two joint North-South teams, “Peace” and “Prosperity”, in the friendly in the North Korean capital of Pyongyang yesterday, the packed crowd shouting and waving balloons in what turned out to be a thriller – Prosperity won 103 to 102.
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