[5] Its chairman is Kim Il-guk,[6] Vice President Chang Ung, and Secretary General Son Kwang-ho.

[8] Regardless of the lack of recognition, the Olympic Committee of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea was founded in 1953[9] and it applied to join the IOC in June 1956.

[2] In the 1957 session of the IOC, the Olympic Committee of the USSR asked the IOC to provisionally recognize the North Korean NOC on the grounds that the East German NOC had been admitted alongside the Olympic Committee of West Germany.

[10][11] North Korea joined the Soviet-led boycott of the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.

"[20] The following national bodies have membership in the Committee: On November 2, 2018, officials from both North and South Korea announced that their countries would participate at the 2020 Summer Olympics, held in Tokyo, Japan, as a unified team.