This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. An International Olympic Committee spokesperson said a North Korean manager confiscated the phones from a Samsung Olympic office - possibly, they said, to stop the country’s Olympians from visiting the office, where Samsung, a South Korean company, was showcasing more of its electronics. North Korea, though, may have been suspicious of Samsung’s intentions, according to a report from Radio Free Asia. “They will be waving (their) national flag through the S7.” “(The athletes) can use the entire screen of the S7 to become a flag,” Pio Schunker, a Samsung marketing official, told the Associated Press before the opening ceremony. ‘The burden of winning a gold medal for our nation’: How North Korea demands everything from its Olympians.The Olympics are tough for all athletes.The country’s Olympic committee reportedly withheld the complimentary S7s from its 31 Olympians, preventing them from displaying the North Korean flag on the phone’s “flag app” during the Games’ opening ceremony on Aug.
