North Korean Skate Heroine Appeals For Early Unification

PYONGYANG, NORTH KOREA – MAY 22: North Korea's legendary speed skate heroine, Han Pilhwa, 73, who became the first Korean winter Olympics medalist in 1964, on Friday May 22 appealed for an early North-South unification in a recent interview with Kyodo News. Han is still remembered as a big news maker during the 1990 Sapporo Winter Asian Games when she met briefly in tears with his own elder brother from whom she separated amid 1950-1953 Korean War. "The motion and feeling of the separated families are the same," said Han who also stressed the need for peoples in both nations to meet each other. Han and the brother had since then been unable to meet again, said Han, adding that she indirectly heard of his death later.