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Two Koreas draw 1-1 in friendly table tennis competition
South and North Korea quietly wrapped up a rare inter-Korean encounter in a friendly table tennis competition held in Russia on Wednesday.
The men’s team from Seoul beat Team Pyongyang 3-2 on the second day of the Eastern Champions Cup at the Vladivostok State University of Economics and Service.
The victory helped the South Korean team tie the Seoul-Pyongyang match 1-1 after a 3-2 defeat of the women’s team the previous day.
The inter-Korean match took place in a calm and quiet atmosphere as the event came in the midst of tensions on the Korean Peninsula stemming from a stalemate in nuclear talks between the United States and North Korea.
The inaugural Eastern Champions Cup, co-organized by Seoul and Russia’s Primorsky Krai (Maritime Territory), is a regional table tennis competition of teams from the capitals of the five countries — the two Koreas, China, Russia and Japan.
Table tennis has played a role in improving the inter-Korean relations over the past decades. The two Koreas joined hands in earning a gold medal with a unified inter-Korean team at the 1991 World Table Tennis Championships in Chiba, Japan.
The three-day tournament will close on Thursday.
![Athletes from Seoul and Pyongyang play table tennis during the Eastern Champions Cup held at the Vladivostok State University of Economics and Service on Nov. 27, 2019. (Yonhap)](https://img2.yna.co.kr/photo/yna/YH/2019/11/27/PYH2019112724000009600_P4.jpg)
Athletes from Seoul and Pyongyang play table tennis during the Eastern Champions Cup held at the Vladivostok State University of Economics and Service on Nov. 27, 2019. (Yonhap)