[Photo] North Korea to partake in 2018 ITTF Korea Open

North Korean table tennis athletes will take part in the 2018 Korea Open, hosted by the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF), for the first time. The tournament will be held in Daejeon on July 17-22. The ITTF officially announced on his website on July 5 that a North Korean team will be participating in the open. Although North Korea partook in the 2002 and 2014 Asian Games in Busan and Incheon, this will be their first appearance in an ITTF event hosted in South Korea. The above photo shows members of the unified Korean team that played in the quarterfinals of the World Team Table Tennis Championships in Halmstad, Sweden, in May. (provided by the Korea Table Tennis Association)