North Korea in Rio prevent athletes from receiving gifts Samsung

08/13/2016
It prevented the authorities in Pyongyang athletes who are in the Rio Olympics to get a Galaxy S 7 phones that Samsung distributed to all athletes participating in the roughly 11 thousand Olympic athlete.
According to Radio Free Asia, North Korea issued a warrant for 31 athletes and sports compete within the Rio 2016 not to accept the Samsung devices, without disclosing the reasons.
According to the same source, a Mission North Korean officials received all the phones that were dedicated to the athletes from the North Koreans without knowing the fate of these devices.
The recent report by the Washington Post confirmed that the North Korean athletes face several constraints through offline presence in Rio, especially in dealing with athletes from other countries or visit certain places.

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