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EXPLAINER: Why is North Korea skipping the Tokyo Olympics?

by Hyung-Jin Kim
| April 6, 2021 4:03 AM

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea, citing the coronavirus, has become the world's first country to drop out of the Tokyo Olympics.

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