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By Xiaofei Xu and Chris Lau, CNN Paris (CNN) — Olympics organizers have “deeply apologized” to South Korea over a “human error” that saw its 143 athletes wrongly introduced as North Korean at the opening ceremony. The mishap occurred on Friday, when the South Korean athletes made their debut on a boat cruising down the River Seine. Both the French and English announcements falsely identified them as being from the “People’s Democratic Republic of Korea.” That’s the full name of North Korea. The official name of South Korea is the “Republic of Korea.” The error is politically sensitive for the two Koreas, which are still technically at war. The Korean War ended in 1953 with an armist

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