{"id":1196990,"date":"2022-01-07T13:05:04","date_gmt":"2022-01-07T18:05:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1196990"},"modified":"2022-01-07T13:05:08","modified_gmt":"2022-01-07T18:05:08","slug":"north-korea-becomes-first-country-to-boycott-genocide-olympics-to-protest-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/north-korea-becomes-first-country-to-boycott-genocide-olympics-to-protest-america\/","title":{"rendered":"North Korea Becomes First Country to Boycott Genocide Olympics \u2013 to Protest America"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnorth-korea-becomes-first-country-to-boycott-genocide-olympics-to-protest-america%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1196990&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">The repressive communist government of North Korea announced on Friday through state media channels that it would not participate in the 2020 Beijing Winter Olympics, citing condemnation of its ally China by \u201chostile forces\u201d as the reason.<\/p>\n<p>In its summary of the letter Pyongyang sent to the Chinese Communist Party, The Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) \u2014 the official state newswire of North Korea \u2014 did not mention that the country could not formally participate, anyway: The International Olympic Committee (IOC) in September banned North Korea from playing the Beijing Games. IOC bans are notoriously limited, however, allowing individual North Korean athletes to participate but not under the official flag of the country. Russia \u2013 suspended for a staggeringly pervasive doping scandal implicating <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/sports\/2019\/12\/09\/russia-banned-from-olympics-for-four-years-over-doping-scandal\/\">hundreds<\/a> of athletes \u2013 currently participates in this form, sending athletes who play without waving their flag.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>Human rights activists have spent much of the past year urging countries to make the same move as North Korea and boycott the Beijing Games over China\u2019s long list of human rights atrocities against both its own people and colonized ethnic minorities in Tibet and East Turkistan. Evidence <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2021\/12\/09\/tribunal-olympics-host-china-beyond-a-reasonable-doubt-guilty-of-genocide\/\">shows<\/a> the Chinese Communist Party is currently engaging in \u2014 among other crimes \u2014 genocidal crimes such as infanticide and forced sterilization, slavery, torture, and the use of political prisoners for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2020\/03\/03\/tribunal-chinas-live-harvesting-political-prisoner-organs-continues-day\/\">live organ harvesting.<\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_19398954\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Beij-Boyc.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-19398954\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Beij-Boyc.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">People gather in front of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, Germany, Tuesday, Jan. 4, 2022, for a protest rally against the Olympic games in Bejing 2022.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Opponents of the Beijing Winter Olympics also note that China, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2021\/06\/11\/9-ways-unrelated-wuhan-lab-china-created-pandemic\/\">responsible<\/a> for the ongoing Chinese coronavirus pandemic, is currently experiencing its worst outbreak of the disease since the pandemic began in Wuhan in 2019, resulting in upwards of 120 million people <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2022\/01\/05\/coronavirus-china-partially-locks-down-province-of-110-million-people\/\">trapped<\/a> in some form of lockdown measure nationwide and potentially threatening the wellbeing of athletes.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>North Korea had nothing critical to say about its most important political ally in its announcement that it would not have a presence in Beijing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[P]reparations for the 24th Winter Olympics are being satisfactorily made thanks to the positive efforts and devoted struggle made by the Chinese party, government and people under the correct leadership of General Secretary Xi Jinping despite the worldwide health crisis,\u201d KCNA <a href=\"https:\/\/kcnawatch.org\/newstream\/1641526689-437028118\/letter-to-prc-olympic-committee\">reported<\/a> in its&nbsp;paraphrase&nbsp;of the letter to Beijing. \u201cHowever, the U.S. and its vassal forces are getting evermore undisguised in their moves against China aimed at preventing the successful opening of the Olympics.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe DPRK [North Korea] Olympic Committee and the DPRK Ministry of Physical Culture and Sports resolutely reject those moves,\u201d the statement explained, \u201cbranding them as an insult to the spirit of the international Olympic Charter and as a base act of attempting to disgrace the international image of China.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSaying that we could not take part in the Olympics due to the hostile forces\u2019 moves and the worldwide pandemic,\u201d KCNA continued, \u201cbut we would fully support the Chinese comrades in all their work to hold splendid and wonderful Olympic festival, the letter expressed the belief that the fraternal Chinese people and sportspersons would successfully open the Beijing Winter Olympics.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to reporters during a regular press briefing on Friday, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin responded warmly to the letter, <a href=\"https:\/\/english.kyodonews.net\/tokyo\/news\/2022\/01\/767355f07da3-urgent-n-korea-vows-not-to-participate-in-beijing-winter-olympics.html\">expressing<\/a> \u201cunderstanding\u201d and a willingness on China\u2019s part to \u201ccontinue to strengthen exchanges and cooperation\u201d with North Korea.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>North Korea is one of the world\u2019s few regimes with a claim to possibly being more repressive than China. The reign of terror of the Kim family, currently led by dictator Kim Jong-un, has been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2021\/12\/15\/report-north-korea-holding-more-executions-in-secret-to-evade-human-rights-monitors\/\">characterized<\/a> by widespread executions for \u201ccrimes\u201d like watching foreign movies, the use of labor camps to imprison generations of Koreans, pervasive rape and other sexual <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/national-security\/2018\/11\/01\/human-rights-watch-finds-endemic-sexual-abuse-by-north-korean-officials\/\">crimes<\/a>, and, like China, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/national-security\/2018\/10\/29\/human-rights-advocates-north-korea-funds-nuclear-program-with-billions-from-forced-labor\/\">enslavement<\/a> of its own people.<\/p>\n<p>The Kim regime <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2018\/01\/10\/north-korea-send-massive-delegation-over-400-winter-olympics\/\">used<\/a> the last Winter Olympics \u2013 held in PyeongChang, South Korea \u2013 as a major propaganda event, sending a delegation of hundreds of officials despite its meager athletic presence and using Kim\u2019s sister, Kim Yo-jong, to attract bizarre positive press from American corporate media. North Korea\u2019s entry into those Games <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2018\/06\/11\/donald-trump-meets-kim-jong-un-in-singapore\/\">preceded<\/a>&nbsp;the first-ever meeting between a leader of the North Korean communist regime and a president of the United States, as well as a propaganda push that included several visits by Kim to China.<\/p>\n<p>North Korea\u2019s ban from the 2022 Beijing Olympics is a result of its <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Sports\/wireStory\/banned-olympics-ioc-nkorea-puts-blame-82126657\">decision<\/a> not to participate in the 2020 Tokyo Summer Games, abruptly withdrawing on the grounds that it did not want to risk importing cases of Chinese coronavirus.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIOC President Thomas Bach said at the time that individual athletes from North Korea who qualify to compete in Beijing could still be accepted. There is no word of that happening,\u201d the Associated Press <a href=\"https:\/\/wintergames.ap.org\/article\/banned-olympics-ioc-nkorea-puts-blame-elsewhere\">reported<\/a> in September.<\/p>\n<p>At press time, North Korea is the only country to commit to not sending athletes to the Beijing Olympics, despite calls for boycotts from the free world. Some countries, including the United States, announced a move they branded a \u201cdiplomatic boycott\u201d \u2013 not a boycott, but a decision to participate in the Games without sending politicians to attend the ceremonial events of the Games. China <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2021\/11\/30\/china-biden-diplomatic-boycott-of-olympics-impossible-because-u-s-diplomats-not-invited\/\">scoffed<\/a> at President Joe Biden for his \u201cdiplomatic boycott,\u201d using state media commentators to note that the Chinese government never invited any American politicians to the Olympics, so they technically could not boycott if they wanted to.<\/p>\n<p>Last month, the Biden administration <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/12\/28\/biden-admin-confirms-sending-officials-to-genocide-games-claims-boycott-stands\/\">confirmed<\/a> it is not even doing that and American diplomats have, in fact, applied for visas to attend the Beijing Olympics.<\/p>\n<p>Protesters from the communities most repressed by the Chinese Communist Party \u2013 Tibetans, Uyghurs, Southern Mongolians, and others \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2022\/01\/05\/protesters-outside-of-nbc-studios-demand-network-sponsors-drop-genocide-olympics\/\">organized<\/a> for a \u201cGlobal Day of Action\u201d on Tuesday, which marked one month before the beginning of the Games. In New York, protesters gathered in front of NBC Studios, the network that will broadcast the event in the United States, urging the broadcaster to reconsider.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The repressive communist government of North Korea announced on Friday through state media channels that it would not participate in the 2020 Beijing Winter Olympics, citing condemnation of its ally &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1196990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1196990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1196990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1196990\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1196990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1196990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1196990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}