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In Pyeongchang, South Korea, organizers say almost 3,000 athletes representing 92 countries will be competing. That would be the most ever.

And while North Korea has sent a delegation¹ of athletes, musicians and media to South Korea, and there are signs of improved relations between the two rivals. There are also signs of continued tensions between them. For one thing, the night before the games, North Korea is holding a parade to show off its missiles and rockets, an effort to show the world its military strength.

For another, U.S. Vice² President Mike Pence is attending the games. The U.S. is an ally of South Korea, and according to "The Washington Post", he's bringing a man named Fred Warmbier with him. He's the father of Otto Warmbier, an American student who was jailed in North Korea and who died soon after he was released last year from a North Korean prison.

Warmbier's parents have accused North Korea of torturing him. The communist country says Warmbier contracted botulism, a bacterial³ disease, while in prison. The presence of his father at the Olympics will probably anger North Korea. So, it's likely these games will make political headlines, as well as athletic⁴ ones.

IVAN WATSON, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Dancing for joy outside a women's ice hockey game, just days before the Winter Olympics. Some supporters delighted about the joint⁵ team from Korea playing what's supposed to be a friendly match against Sweden. But others are not feeling so friendly.

Scuffles are up between police and a small crowd of anti-North Korean demonstrators. They call North Korea's leader a dog, and they ridiculed⁶ the Winter Games, calling them the Pyongyang, not Pyeongchang Olympics.

A flurry of diplomacy⁷ last month resulted in a last minute decision to create the first ever joint North and South Korean women's Olympic ice hockey team. Playing under a unification flag, they stand for a Korean folk song instead of their country's national anthem⁸. Twenty-three South Korean players skate alongside 12 North Korean players under the leadership of South Korea's Canadian coach.

The North and South Korean players only had a few days to train together and in the end, Sweden soundly defeated them.

Sweden ranked fifth in the world easily beat the Koreans 3-1. After the game, a North Korean coach and player briefly⁹ sat alongside South Korean counterparts to make a short statement about unity¹⁰. But then in surreal twist, the North Korean walked off stage to avoid answering questions from journalists. The team that's supposed to be a symbol of unity isn't even allowed to live together.

SARAH MURRAY, COACH, UNIFIED¹¹ KOREAN WOMEN'S ICE HOCKEY TEAM: North Korea is not going to be staying with us in the same building, in the Olympic Village. They have their own building. So, all the North Korean athletes will be together.

In an ideal world, yes, we would be in the same building and we would stay together because we need to do team meetings. We need to be together.

We're one team. So — but unfortunately, it didn't work out that way. So, we're just going to deal with it.

1 delegation   

n.代表团；派遣

参考例句：

• The statement of our delegation was singularly appropriate to the occasion.我们代表团的声明非常适合时宜。
• We shall inform you of the date of the delegation's arrival.我们将把代表团到达的日期通知你。

2 vice   

n.坏事；恶习；[pl.]台钳，老虎钳；adj.副的

参考例句：

• He guarded himself against vice.他避免染上坏习惯。
• They are sunk in the depth of vice.他们堕入了罪恶的深渊。

3 bacterial   

a.细菌的

参考例句：

• Bacterial reproduction is accelerated in weightless space. 在失重的空间，细菌繁殖加快了。
• Brain lesions can be caused by bacterial infections. 大脑损伤可能由细菌感染引起。

4 athletic   

adj.擅长运动的，强健的；活跃的，体格健壮的

参考例句：

• This area has been marked off for athletic practice.这块地方被划出来供体育训练之用。
• He is an athletic star.他是一个运动明星。

5 joint   

adj.联合的，共同的；n.关节，接合处；v.连接，贴合

参考例句：

• I had a bad fall,which put my shoulder out of joint.我重重地摔了一跤，肩膀脫臼了。
• We wrote a letter in joint names.我们联名写了封信。

6 ridiculed   

v.嘲笑，嘲弄，奚落( ridicule的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• Biosphere 2 was ultimately ridiculed as a research debade, as exfravagant pseudoscience. 生物圈2号最终被讥讽为科研上的大失败，代价是昂贵的伪科学。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• She ridiculed his insatiable greed. 她嘲笑他的贪得无厌。 来自《简明英汉词典》

7 diplomacy   

n.外交；外交手腕，交际手腕

参考例句：

• The talks have now gone into a stage of quiet diplomacy.会谈现在已经进入了“温和外交”阶段。
• This was done through the skill in diplomacy. 这是通过外交手腕才做到的。

8 anthem   

n.圣歌，赞美诗，颂歌

参考例句：

• All those present were standing solemnly when the national anthem was played.奏国歌时全场肃立。
• As he stood on the winner's rostrum,he sang the words of the national anthem.他站在冠军领奖台上，唱起了国歌。

9 briefly   

adv.简单地，简短地

参考例句：

• I want to touch briefly on another aspect of the problem.我想简单地谈一下这个问题的另一方面。
• He was kidnapped and briefly detained by a terrorist group.他被一个恐怖组织绑架并短暂拘禁。

10 unity   

n.团结，联合，统一；和睦，协调

参考例句：

• When we speak of unity,we do not mean unprincipled peace.所谓团结，并非一团和气。
• We must strengthen our unity in the face of powerful enemies.大敌当前，我们必须加强团结。

11 unified   

(unify 的过去式和过去分词)； 统一的； 统一标准的； 一元化的

参考例句：

• The teacher unified the answer of her pupil with hers. 老师核对了学生的答案。
• The First Emperor of Qin unified China in 221 B.C. 秦始皇于公元前221年统一中国。