Ping-pong diplomacy: When North Korea tried to woo the US with table tennis
Editor’s note: This is the first in a two-part series on North Korea’s hosting of the World Table Tennis Championships in 1979. The “ping-pong diplomacy” between the U.S. and China, which enabled the…
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