North Korea has agreed to let drug-testing officials back into the country, the Olympic Council of Asia said Sunday, in a move it hopes will temper a row over its flag being flown at the Asian Games.
North Korea has been largely closed off from the outside world since early 2020, when it shut its borders because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The World Anti-Doping Agency declared North Korea's national anti-doping body "non-compliant" in 2021 because it was unable to get its testers into the country and imposed sanctions.