Photos of North and South Korean table tennis players posing for a selfie on the medal podium have gotten people across the globe talking, with some hailing it as a show of rare cross-border harmony.

South Korea won bronze and North Korea bagged silver in the mixed doubles, and South Korea’s Lim Jong-hoon celebrated the occasion by whipping out a phone for a picture.

Occasionally, the two Koreas have formed unified teams for international sporting competitions. The Olympic Winter games PyeongChang 2018 featured both countries marching as one in the opening ceremony and playing as one unified team in the women’s ice hockey competition.

Athletes from North Korea and South Korea take a selfie after the Table Tennis Mixed Doubles medal matches in Paris. (Jean Catuffe/Getty Images via CNN Newsource)

But despite overtures of a unified team for the Tokyo 2020 Games, things fell apart and sporting relations froze once again.

North and South Korea are still technically at war. The Korean War ended in 1953 with an armistice, and no peace treaty has ever been signed.

These Olympics have already seen some drama involving an embarrassing mix-up between the two nations.

The mishap occurred last Friday, when the South Korean athletes made their debut on a boat cruising down the River Seine.

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Both the French and English announcements falsely identified them as being from the “People’s Democratic Republic of Korea”.

That’s the incorrect full name of North Korea, which is officially known as the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.

The official name of South Korea is the Republic of Korea.

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