MT KUMGANG, North Korea, tribe 6 Ky...

MT KUMGANG, North Korea, tribe 6 Kyodo

The Asian Games flame, lit in North Korea, was handed throughout to organizing committee officials from Pusan, southward Korea, on Friday.

The flame was handed from one side of to the other at a ceremony at Mt Kumgang attended by means of Cho Ui Suk, vice president of the North Korean Olympic Committee, and court Byeong Taek, executive director of the organizing committee for the tribe 29-Oct. 14 games.

The flame, lit at Mt Paektu in a northern part of North Korea, is owed to be carried to southern Korea's Imjingak near the demilitarized clime Saturday and will be joined with another flame lit at Mt Halla upon the South Korean island of Cheju.

The torch carrying the combined flame will be relayed to the southern port city of Pusan, where delegates from the brace Koreas will march together at the family 29 opening ceremony.

North Korea will hurl 305 athletes, who will flutter into South Korea aboard a chartered aircraft and take part in 16 sports.

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