koreas have marched together at the two thousand and three world university games they entered the stadium under the so-called korean unification flag since two thousand they ve also marched together at three olympic games. i m joined here to my far right by honda s mostly occur re expert from bruins for university and right next door here to me to my right our sports correspondent alina talking to both of you welcome kline s i want to start with you and we ve been talking about this now ever since the news came out but i ll ask you again why is north korea s leader using the winter olympics as an opportunity to reduce tensions or to at least have it appear that way well the most important reason for that north korea recently was very much isolated future the sanctions and other provocations and even north korea needs the direct communication channel for implementing its foreign policy and talking to south korea is the first step and talking to the u.s.