WI: Pyongyang Olympics

So, what would happen of North Korea got the olympics? (I don't really have specific dates in mind.)
 

d32123

Banned
Well, if Pyongyang is getting the Olympics you would have to assume that their economy is better than it is now as well as their human rights record.
 
Well, if Pyongyang is getting the Olympics you would have to assume that their economy is better than it is now as well as their human rights record.
Could their competition just be worse? Say a major earthquake in one and a coup in the other or something?
 

d32123

Banned
Could their competition just be worse? Say a major earthquake in one and a coup in the other or something?

Right now, glorious nations such as Uganda, El Salvador, Luxembourg, and Turkmenistan have higher GDP (PPP)'s than North Korea. They simply wouldn't be able to afford it. You'd have to avoid the fall of the Soviet Union (and Soviet aid to North Korea) to allow this to happen.
 
Right now, glorious nations such as Uganda, El Salvador, Luxembourg, and Turkmenistan have higher GDP (PPP)'s than North Korea. They simply wouldn't be able to afford it. You'd have to avoid the fall of the Soviet Union (and Soviet aid to North Korea) to allow this to happen.
I didn't give a year. Could be the 80s.
 
If you have it in the 60's or 70's then Soviet support actually made North Korean economy better than South Korean.

So maybe 68 or 72 ?
 

Devvy

Donor
Well....the IOC stipulates that any country wishing to host the Olympics must effectively give visa-free travel into the country for all athletes and officials.

All other practical considerations aside, that's a big problem for any dates in recent memory. My Korean history is crap....was there any time when North Korea existed, but had a more open border with the rest of the world?
 
Maybe if the North Koreans don't take a break in Seoul after its capture, move into Pusan, and capture it before MacArthur can attack Inchon, a unified DPRK can host the Olympics sometime in the 1980s or 1990s. Or, if Kim Jong-il is a reformer, and doesn't do all that Songun crap, North Korea could be modernized by the time Kim Jong-un takes power, and have the Summer Olympics in 2016.
 
Maybe if the North Koreans don't take a break in Seoul after its capture, move into Pusan, and capture it before MacArthur can attack Inchon, a unified DPRK can host the Olympics sometime in the 1980s or 1990s.

But then the Olympics would be held in the DPRK capital of Seoul instead of the old temporary capital of Pyongyang! :p

The later scenario is more plausible in terms of having the Olympics held in Pyongyang.
 

d32123

Banned
But then the Olympics would be held in the DPRK capital of Seoul instead of the old temporary capital of Pyongyang! :p

The later scenario is more plausible in terms of having the Olympics held in Pyongyang.

Maybe the Winter Olympics are held in Pyongyang in Noravea's scenario.
 
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