IOC meeting to discuss North Korea threat

Escalating tensions over North Korea’s nuclear weapons program have caused security challenges posed to the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics to be assessed at an IOC meeting in Peru in September. The International Olympic Committee session comes five months before the Winter Games are staged 80 kilometres across the border from North Korea. Although regional concerns have been building for months amid new missile tests by the North, the pace has intensified since new sanctions were passed against Kim Jong Un’s regime by the UN Security Council last week.