South Korea will stop using a flag which shows disputed islands during the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, its foreign ministry said Tuesday after rival claimant Japan reacted angrily.The two Koreas have agreed to march together at Friday’s opening ceremony under the unification flag — a pale blue silhouette of the peninsula — which will also be used by their combined women’s ice hockey team.
The flags used at the joint team’s practice match against Sweden on Sunday showed a blue dot indicating islands in the Sea of Japan controlled by South Korea, which refers to them as Dokdo.
