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US-South Korea joint military drills to go ahead without dip in scale, despite Seoul's diplomatic thaw with Pyongyang
•The United States and South Korea announced that their annual joint military drills would go ahead in April, with no significant downsize in scale
US should lower threshold for talks with North Korea, says South Korean president Moon Jae-in
•South Korea's president said that the United States should lower the threshold for talks with North Korea and that the two countries should start a dialogue soon
Winter Olympics 2018: South, North Korea march apart as Pyeongchang Games end with vibrant closing ceremony
•At a colourful and cold closing ceremony, Ivanka Trump sat near a blacklisted North Korean general while the North and South Korean athletes entered separately, waving their national flags.
North Korean general Kim Yong Chol and Ivanka Trump attend Winter Olympics closing ceremony
•Blacklisted North Korean general Kim Yong Chol and Ivanka Trump attended the Winter Olympics closing ceremony together, in the final piece of the games-led diplomacy
Winter Olympics 2018: Ester Ledecka wins historic skiing-snowboard double at Pyeongchang with parallel giant slalom gold
•Ester Ledecka completed a historic Olympic double on Saturday when the Czech star romped to snowboarding parallel giant slalom gold to add to her shock super-G title in alpine skiing.
Winter Olympics 2018: Canada's Sebastien Toutant wins inaugural big air gold in style; USA's Kyle Mack claims silver
•Canada's Sebastien Toutant bounced back from last place in the slopestyle to win the first ever snowboard big air Olympic title on Saturday in Pyeongchang, in front of the watching Ivanka Trump.
Winter Olympics 2018: Former KGB agent Darya Domracheva wins biathlon gold medal for Belarus
Fpsports •Darya Domracheva, a former KGB agent, scripted history at the Winter Olympics at Pyeongchang by becoming the first female biathlete to win four Olympic gold medals.
Google Doodle takes a closer look at the bobsleigh on day 14 of 2018 Winter Olympics at PyeongChang
Tech2 News Staff •The Google Doodle blog mentions about these bird "logging time on the mountains for the past few weeks in preparation for this webbed feat."
Winter Olympics 2018: Russian curling medallist Alexander Krushelnitsky tests positive for meldonium, says CAS
•CAS said the Olympic Athletes from Russia (OAR) mixed doubles curling team, who won bronze at the Winter Games in Pyeongchang, had been disqualified from the competition over the violation.
Winter Olympics 2018: 'Peace' doesn't sell at Pyeongchang Games despite Koreas coming together, say sponsors
•But the peace message is not catching on with Olympic sponsors, which are concerned that it could put them too close to a hot-button issue: North Korea’s participation in the Games.