The next leg of the international Olympic torch relay is about to get underway in the North Korean capital, Pyongyang.
Anti-China protests, which have disrupted many of the previous legs of the route, are not expected to take place. Unauthorised demonstrations are banned in the communist state. Organisers say hundreds of thousands of people will line the 20-kilometre route which leads to the Kim Il-Sung Stadium. The torch was previously in the South Korean capital Seoul, N Korea expels S Korean managers ...
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(Deutsche Welle)
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