The Koreas' Olympic Unity Could Be Fleeting

It looked like a breakthrough, and in a way it was.North and South Korea announced Wednesday they wouldnot only march together under one flag at next month’s Winter Olympics in South Korea’s PyeongChang, but also, for the first time at the games, field a joint women’s ice-hockey team. This announcement came after a year of high anxiety on the Korean peninsula, as North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has accelerated his testing of missiles and nuclear weapons, and presented a dramatic possibility of union between two countries, who share a small patch of land that both claim in its entirety, and who are still technically at war But it says little about the prospects of a long-term rapprochement between Kim Jong Un’s regime and the rest of the world.