North Korea has been awarded the hosting rights for the 2018 Junior World Championships (JWC) by the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF), the organization announced on Thursday.

The decision to award the rights was made during a two day IWF conference in Tbilisi, Georgia and was announced via the IWF’s twitter account.

“The IWF Executive Board attributed the hosting right of the 2018 JWC to (the) Democratic People’s Republic of Korea,” the relevant post said. 

The IWF website says that the Executive Board chose North Korea out of a total of five candidates. The IWF is the world controlling body for weightlifting.

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