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N. Korea offers use of ship at Asian Games to “lessen the burden” for ROK

N. Korea previously provided own ship at 2002 Busan Asia Games

North Korea has said it will house its athletes in one of its ships at this year’s Asian Games, in an effort to “lessen the burden” for their South Korean hosts, state media outlet the Korea Central News Agency (KCNA) said on Wednesday.

In an editorial calling the upcoming games a “golden opportunity” to mend relations between the two Koreas, the KCNA said that the DPRK would anchor its own ship in Incheon Port and provide its athletes with room and board.

NK News Analytic Director Leo Byrne said that in “all likelihood the ship they’ll use is the  Mangyongbong 92,”