Where other Asian Games nations are wearing brand-new kit for Nagoya, North Korea seem to be making do with the same team vests and tracksuits used for a decade or more.

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The latest fashion statement doesn’t matter to North Korea, but nutrition does, so athletes receive the best available diet.

“Despite North Korea’s well-documented food scarcity issues, the regime strategically allocates its limited resources to sports where it believes it has the best chance of success” Reddy added.

The success post-COVID has naturally raised questions about what North Korean weightlifters were doing while the borders were sealed to the…

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