{"id":151561,"date":"2018-02-07T02:10:50","date_gmt":"2018-02-07T07:10:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=151561"},"modified":"2018-02-07T02:10:50","modified_gmt":"2018-02-07T07:10:50","slug":"to-give-or-not-samsung-phone-to-north-korean-olympians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/02\/07\/to-give-or-not-samsung-phone-to-north-korean-olympians\/","title":{"rendered":"To give or not Samsung phone to North Korean Olympians"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_151562\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-151562\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/andriod-phone-1844848_960_720.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-151562\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/andriod-phone-1844848_960_720.jpg\" alt=\"Olympic Partner Samsung Electronics has donated some 4,000 Galaxy Note 8 phones for athletes and officials at the International Olympic Committee so that they can document every moment and share their memories with the world. (Pixabay photo) \" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/andriod-phone-1844848_960_720.jpg 960w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/andriod-phone-1844848_960_720-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/andriod-phone-1844848_960_720-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-151562\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Olympic Partner Samsung Electronics has donated some 4,000 Galaxy Note 8 phones for athletes and officials at the International Olympic Committee so that they can document every moment and share their memories with the world. <a href=\"https:\/\/pixabay.com\/en\/andriod-phone-edge-plus-mobile-phone-1844848\/\">(Pixabay photo)<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>SEOUL, Korea, Republic Of\u2014 Here is an Olympian question that Pyeongchang Winter Olympics organizer is wrestling with: to give or not to give the Samsung Galaxy phone to the 22 North Korean athletes.<\/p>\n<p>Olympic Partner Samsung Electronics has donated some 4,000 Galaxy Note 8 phones for athletes and officials at the\u00a0International\u00a0Olympic Committee so that they can document every moment and share their memories with the world.<\/p>\n<p>But the Winter Olympic Games organizer is in limbo whether giving the device that costs at least $1,000 to North Koreans would violate global sanctions designed to punish their government&#8217;s nuclear ambitions.<\/p>\n<p>The Galaxy Note 8 Olympic Games phone distributed to athletes is a limited edition not for sale, but Samsung&#8217;s Note series are some of the most expensive available in the market. The United Nations sanctions ban supplying or transferring luxury items to North Korea or to North Korean nationals.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0International\u00a0Olympic Committee has advised the organizer that North Korean athletes can use the phone during the Olympics that open Friday but must return them before their departure.<\/p>\n<p>Even after the IOC&#8217;s response, the Pyeongchang Organizing Committee is still unsure what to do.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSomebody should make a clear call but there is no one who can,\u201d said Sung Baik-yoo, the committee&#8217;s spokesman. \u201cSo we have not given the phone (to North Koreans) and we cannot give the phone until we confirm this is not a violation of the U.N. sanctions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The committee should also take into consideration that all athletes are to be treated equally regardless of their nationality, Sung said.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SEOUL, Korea, Republic Of\u2014 Here is an Olympian question that Pyeongchang Winter Olympics organizer is wrestling with: to give or &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":151562,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[44064,46063],"class_list":["post-151561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-w","tag-pyeongchang-winter-olympics","tag-samsung-galaxy-phone-to-the-22-north-korean-athletes","mauthors-youkyung-lee","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151561\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/151562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}