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FILE - South Korean President Moon Jae-in, front left, shakes hands with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's younger sister Kim Yo Jong during the opening ceremony of the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea on Feb. 9, 2018. North Korea basked in the global limelight during the last Winter Games in South Korea, with hundreds of athletes, cheerleaders and officials pushing hard to woo their South Korean and U.S. rivals in a now-stalled bid for diplomacy. Four years later, as the 2022 Winter Olympics come to its main ally and neighbor China, North Korea isn't sending any athletes and officials because of coronavirus fears. (Kim Ju-sung/Yonhap via AP, File)
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FILE - In this Aug. 5, 2013, file photo, the Atomic Bomb Dome is silhouetted at sunset in Hiroshima, western Japan. Many residents of Hiroshima welcome attention to their city from abroad, which IOC President Thomas Bach will bring when he visits on Friday, July 16. But Bach will also bring political baggage — as will his vice president John Coates when he visits Nagasaki the same day — that is largely unwelcome in two cities viewed as sacred by many Japanese. (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi, File)
IOC's Bach brings attention to Hiroshima -- some unwanted

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