Olympic Games begin with unexpected show of unity at opening ceremony

By Foster Klug, Glenn Cullen and Warren Barnsley
Updated February 10 2018 - 9:23am, first published 9:02am

In an extraordinary show of unity, North and South Korea sat side by side under exploding fireworks that represented peace, not destruction, as the 2018 Winter Olympics opened on a Korean Peninsula riven by generations of anger and suspicion.

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