Thousands of spectators waved miniature white flags showing a unified Korean Peninsula as women’s hockey teams from North and South Korea faced off at the Gangneung Hockey Centre, one of the venues of the 2018 Winter Olympics next month in South Korea.
Only days before, North Korea had tested a ballistic missile over the Sea of Japan, escalating nuclear tensions. But for a few hours at this tournament in April, through a sport only marginally popular in South Korea, dreams of unification were stirred.
South Korea won, 3-0, yet spectators were teary-eyed as the two teams shook hands and posed for pictures after the game.