North Korea wins a second silver medal at Olympics

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North Korea wins a second silver medal at Olympics

North takes medal in women’s weightlifting, loses in men’s weightlifting, women’s diving

John G. Grisafi August 9, 2016

North Korea wins a second silver medal at Olympics

DPRK commemorative Olympic stamp

North Korea won its second silver medal – and second total medal – of the 2016 Summer Olympics on Tuesday, the official website of the 2016 Olympics revealed.

North Korean weightlifter Choe Hyo Sim took the silver medal in the Women’s 63kg event, placing second behind Deng Wei of China and ahead of Karina Goricheva of Kazakhstan.

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John G. Grisafi

John G. Grisafi is an analyst and Korean linguist from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Having previously worked as an analyst for the United States Army in South Korea and studied Korean at the Defense Language Institute, he is now majoring in East Asian Languages & Civilization and History at the University of Pennsylvania.

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