The International Olympic Committee will facilitate participation by North Korean athletes in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics as it did at the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics in South Korea, IOC President Thomas Bach says.
"We will take the same approach in every respect with regard to Tokyo 2020 as we took with Pyeongchang 2018. . . . We have always applied strict political neutrality, and then the same we will do for Tokyo 2020," Bach said in an interview with Kyodo News in Pyeongchang on Friday.
"We hope that we can continue to assist athletes from DPRK to prepare and then qualify for the Olympic Games in Tokyo," Bach said, calling North Korea by its formal name, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.