{"id":30158,"date":"2018-05-05T11:16:16","date_gmt":"2018-05-05T11:16:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/punjabnews24.com\/?p=30158"},"modified":"2018-05-05T11:16:16","modified_gmt":"2018-05-05T11:16:16","slug":"unified-korea-lose-in-historic-table-tennis-world-championship-semis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/unified-korea-lose-in-historic-table-tennis-world-championship-semis\/","title":{"rendered":"Unified Korea lose in historic table tennis world championship semis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The two Koreas lost their first match &#8211; the semi-finals against Japan &#8211; at the table tennis world championships on Friday after the nations decided not to compete against each other in the quarter-finals.<\/p>\n<p>The decision to allow North and South Korea to field a unified team for the semi-finals in Halmstad, Sweden was announced on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>It was a tripartite agreement between the leaders of the North and South Korean Table Tennis teams and the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF).<\/p>\n<p>The last time that a unified Korea team played the world table tennis championships was 1991 in Chiba, Japan, where the women&#8217;s team shocked defending champions China to win the gold medal.<\/p>\n<p>North Korean player Kim Song I said she would happily join a unified team in the future.<\/p>\n<p>The move follows the North and South Korean leaders&#8217; pledge to work for &#8220;complete denuclearisation&#8221; of the Korean peninsula last week.<\/p>\n<p>The two Koreas had earlier this year joined forces to field a combined women&#8217;s ice hockey team at the Pyeongchang Winter Games after they marched together for the opening ceremony.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The two Koreas lost their first match &#8211; the semi-finals against Japan &#8211; at the table tennis world championships on Friday after the nations decided not to compete against each other in the quarter-finals. The decision to allow North and South Korea to field a unified team for the semi-finals in Halmstad, Sweden was announced [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30159,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30158"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30160,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30158\/revisions\/30160"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}