North Korea announces decision to skip 2022 Winter Olympics in China - TASS

North Korea has notified China about its decision to skip the upcoming 2022 Winter Olympic Games in Beijing due to the ongoing global spread of the novel coronavirus and in the wake of announced political boycotts, the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) announced on Friday.

"The US and its vassal forces are getting evermore undisguised in their moves against China aimed at preventing the successful opening of the Olympics," the agency quoted a letter from the country’s Sports Ministry addressed to the Chinese organizers of the 2022 Olympic Games.

"We could not take part in the Olympics due to the hostile forces’ moves and the worldwide pandemic, but we would fully support the Chinese comrades in all their work to hold splendid and wonderful Olympic festival," the letter reads.