Olympics 2024 | South and North Korea athletes take selfie together, internet calls it 'beautiful moment'

The Paris Olympics 2024 has seen some of the most unique moments, one being the selfie taken by the athletes of North Korea and South Korea together.

Divided by borders however, table tennis athletes were seen smiling as they posed for a selfie together.

After the medal ceremony was over, one of the athletes from South Korea team took out his phone for a group photo. The China team too joined in for the selfie.

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This moment has gone viral on social media platforms. The picture was posted on the official Korean Instagram handle of Olympics.

The picture since posted has garnered a flurry of comments, many calling it a 'beautiful moment.'

"I love the first picture with China, South Korea and North Korea in one frame," a user commented.

"We should all be like the first one. just peace and respect," commented another.

"Love seeing all countries united for at least a little moment," wrote a third.

"This photo shows us what the spirit of Olympics is," commented a fourth.

Two days after its table tennis team won North Korea its first Olympic medal in eight years at the Summer Games in Paris, the country's government-controlled media belatedly and quietly covered the feat on Thursday.

In a terse, four-sentence report, North Korea's state news agency KCNA described how Ri Jong Sik and Kim Kum Yong prevailed in the quarter-finals and semi-finals before coming up short against the world number one duo, China's Wang Chuqin and Sun Yingsha, in the mixed doubles final, losing 4-2 on Tuesday.

The KCNA report also noted North Korea's Jo Jin Mi and Kim Mi Rae took silver in the women's synchronised 10-metre platform diving event on Wednesday, without elaborating.

North Korea won no medals at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea, and its Covid-19 border policies led it to skip the Tokyo Summer Olympics held in 2021.

North Korea then missed the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing after it was suspended from the International Olympic Committee (IOC) until the end of that year for failing to send a team to Tokyo.

Ri Jong Sik and Kim Kum Yong made rare comments to international media at a press conference in Paris, and posed for a selfie with the Chinese and South Korean teams on the medal podium.

As the lowest-ranked of 16 teams in the table tennis competition, they first knocked out defending Olympic champions Japan.