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| | Nuclear tensions offer good reason for holding Olympics in South Korea, bid official says - iht,sports,olympics,2014 ... |
 | | Pyeongchang, South Korea, is one of three finalists in the 2014 bid race, along with Salzburg, Austria, and Sochi, Russia. |
 | | The two Koreas are still technically at war as the 1950-53 Korean War ended in a cease-fire, not a peace treaty. |
 | | Yoon noted that tensions on the Korean peninsula had never stood in the way of staging major sporting events in South Korea, citing the 1988 Seoul Olympics and the 2002 soccer World Cup that South Korea co-hosted with Japan. |
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