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North Korea's Ryom Tae Ok, top, and Kim Ju Sik, perform during a Pairs Figure Skating training session prior to the 2018 Winter Olympics in Gangneung, South Korea, Saturday, Feb. 3, 2018. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)

N. Korea dominates pre-Olympic media coverage at Pyeongchang

By HYUNG-JIN KIM - Associated Press

North Korean ship Mangyongbong-92 carrying art troupe members arrives at Mukho port in Donghae, South Korea Tuesday, Feb. 6, 2018. The art troupe, led by Hyon Song Wol, also the leader of the famous Moranbong girl band hand-picked by North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, will perform in Gangneung and Seoul on Feb. 8 and Feb. 11, respectively, before returning home. (Song Kyung-Seok/Pool Photo via AP)

South mulls meeting N. Korean request to fuel artists’ ship

By KIM TONG-HYUNG - Associated Press

South Koreans wave unification flags as North Korea's Mangyongbong-92 ferry carrying North Korea's members of art troupe approaching to Mukho Port in Donghae, South Korea, Tuesday, Feb. 6, 2018. The art troupe, led by Hyon Song Wol, also the leader of the famous Moranbong girl band hand-picked by North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, will perform in Gangneung and Seoul on Feb. 8 and Feb. 11, respectively, before returning home. (Kim Do-hoon/Yonhap via AP)

By boat, N. Korean musicians arrive in South for Olympic gig

By ERIC TALMADGE - Associated Press

Lee Jae-yong, vice chairman of Samsung Electronics, leaves a detention center in Uiwang, South Korea, Monday, Feb. 5, 2018. A South Korean appeals court Monday handed down a 2½-year suspended jail sentence for corruption to Samsung heir Lee, clearing the way for him to be freed after nearly a year in prison and return to the company's leadership. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

Lee Jae-yong, Samsung heir, freed after appeal, gets suspended jail term

By Youkyung Lee - Associated Press

Ready to rock: Short track venue will be jumpin’ at Olympics

By BETH HARRIS - Associated Press

Olympic rings glow next to art installations prior to the 2018 Winter Olympics in Gangneung, South Korea, Sunday, Feb. 4, 2018. Gangneung is the site of the coastal cluster which will host ice hockey, figure skating, speed skating, short track and curling for the 2018 Olympics. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)

N. Korean official unlikely to oversee Olympic breakthrough

By FOSTER KLUG - Associated Press

IOC President Thomas Bach speaks during the opening ceremony of the 132nd IOC session ahead of the 2018 Winter Olympics in Gangneung, South Korea, Monday, Feb. 5, 2018. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

IOC opens 2 days of meeting on eve of Pyeongchang Olympics

By STEPHEN WADE - Associated Press

The joint Korean women's ice hockey players gather on the ice during a training session prior to the 2018 Winter Olympics in Gangneung, South Korea, Monday, Feb. 5, 2018. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

Linguistic divide poses problem to Korea Olympic hockey team

By HYUNG-JIN KIM - Associated Press

President Donald Trump speaks at the Republican National Committee (RNC) winter meeting in Washington, Thursday, Feb. 1, 2018. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Donald Trump calls leaders of Japan, South Korea about North Korea

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

South Korea's Choe Un Song, top right, skates during a Men's Short Track Speed Skating training session ahead of the 2018 Winter Olympics in Gangneung, South Korea, Friday, Feb. 2, 2018. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)

N. Korea Olympic skaters begin training in South, 1 injured

By HYUNG-JIN KIM - Associated Press

US confident in Olympics security despite NKorea tensions

By MATTHEW LEE - Associated Press

FILE - In this May 11, 2017, file photo, sisters Hannah, left, and Marissa Brandt, pose at their family's home in Vadnais Heights. Minn. Marissa, a native Korean who was adopted as an infant by parents in Minnesota, and her sister Hannah will both be playing in the upcoming Winter Olympics in women's hockey. Marissa for South Korea and Hannah for the U.S. (Scott Takushi/Pioneer Press via AP, File)

Olympics draw Korean adoptees as South Korea confronts past

By SALLY HO - Associated Press

Flags of participating countries flutter in the wind at the Olympic village in Gangnueng, South Korea, Thursday, Feb. 1, 2018. In a rare sight, North Korean flag, center left, flew in South Korea on Thursday as the South prepared for the Winter Olympics that has brought a temporary lull in tensions surrounding the North's nuclear program. The Olympic village in Gangneung turned into a selfie site as volunteer workers posed under a North Korean flag that has been raised in the country for the first time since a hockey tournament in April last year. (Daisuke Suzuki/Kyodo News via AP)

North Korean athletes arrive in South Korea for Olympics

By Hyung-jin Kim - Associated Press

In this Jan. 24, 2018, photo, the Olympic Rings is placed at the beach before sunrise in Gangneung, South Korea. South Korea says North Korea has cancelled one of key joint cooperation projects planned for next month's Winter Olympics in the South. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)

Seoul: North Korea cancels pre-Olympic joint cultural event

By Hyung-jin Kim - Associated Press

FILE - In this Dec. 14, 2013, file photo, Chloe Kim watches the replay of her second run during the snowboarding superpipe final at the Dew Tour iON Mountain Championships in Breckenridge, Colo. Kim's parents are from South Korea, where the Olympic games will be held starting Feb. 9, 2018. Among the handful of relatives who live there is Chloe's grandma, who has been known to brag about her high-flying granddaughter if, say, she's out to tea with her friends and a picture of Chloe happens to appear in the newspaper, which happens fairly often. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson, File)

Chloe Kim: California kid heads to South Korea’s games

By EDDIE PELLS and PAT GRAHAM - Associated Press

Firefighters work as smoke billows from a hospital in Miryang, South Korea, Friday, Jan. 26, 2018. More than a dozen people were died in the hospital fire, according to a fire official. (Kim Dong-mi/Yonhap via AP)

The Latest: SKorea revises death toll of hospital fire to 37

Associated Press

A firefighter inspects a burnt hospital after a fire in Miryang, South Korea, Friday, Jan. 26, 2018. A fire swept through the hospital in southeastern South Korea on Friday, killing more than 30 people and injuring dozens of others in one of the country’s most deadly fire incidents in recent years. (Kim Dong-mi/Yonhap via AP)

Fire at hospital kills 37, injures scores in South Korea

By Ahn Young-Joon and Hyung-jin Kim - Associated Press

Tetsuma Esaki, right, minister in charge of Territorial Issues, is escorted to see a map of Japan after the opening ceremony of the National Museum of Territory and Sovereignty in Tokyo Thursday, Jan. 25, 2018. The Japanese government opened the museum displaying maps and photos to defend its territorial claims against neighbors South Korea and China. The museum displays replicas of historic documents that Japan says show its ownership of two sets of uninhabited islands, one also claimed by China and the other by South Korea. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

Japan displays documents to defend claims to disputed isles

Associated Press

The South Korean women's hockey team head coach Sarah Murray, center, salutes during an inaugural ceremony for the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, Jan. 24, 2018. A 15-member North Korean women's ice hockey team consisting of 12 players, a coach and support staff was scheduled to arrive in South Korea on Thursday to begin training with South Korean athletes for a unified team that will compete at the Olympics. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

North, South Korea hockey players team up for Olympics

By HYUNG-JIN KIM - Associated Press

FILE - In this Jan. 5, 2018, file photo, Wisconsin coach Tony Granato stands behind his bench during the team's NCAA hockey game against Penn State in State College, Pa. Granato, coach of the U.S. men's team for the Olympics, said the U.S. “has lots of pieces that other teams and countries don't know about” and wonders if his team will be overlooked. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar, File)

Big brother Granato prepared for role as US Olympic coach

By STEPHEN WHYNO - Associated Press