“What a fantastic gesture from North Korean athletes: before receiving silver medal, they step down from the podium and go round to salute expressively the South Korea athletes who got bronze medal,” commented journalist Tancredi Palmeri on the platform.
Olympic athletes from North Korea were unable to leave the country for almost three years due to the country’s stringent COVID-19 border restrictions.
Both the Summer and Winter Olympics in Tokyo and Beijing, respectively, were skipped by the nation in 2021 and 2022.
At last year’s 19th Asian Games in China, they made a triumphant comeback to international competition.
