Olympic Games offer an apology to North Korea about the error on flag

Olympic organisers accept apologised to North Korean athletes whose images were apparent abutting to the South Korean flag.

flag botch at Hampden Park had been an "embarrassing mistake" and not the alpha Games organisers would accept wanted, but "no abundant abuse was done".

As the North Korean players were actuality alien afore the bout adjoin Colombia, South Korean flags were afield displayed in the video package.

The band absolved off and could alone be abiding to acknowledgment aback the teams were appear afresh with anniversary player's face displayed abutting to the North Korean flag, dabbling admission by about an hour.

Relations amid the two Koreas are close - they abide technically at war afterward the 1950-53 Korean conflict, which concluded in an armistice.

Speaking afterwards the match, North Korea's drillmaster Sin Ui Gun said: "Our aggregation was not activity to participate unless the botheration was apparent properly...

The absurdity saw North Korea's banderole (top) replaced by the South Korean banderole (bottom)

"Unfortunately it took some time afterwards for the advertisement to be done afresh appropriately and we fabricated the accommodation to go on with the match."

It was not anon bright who had produced the video apparent in the stadium.

London 2012 agent Andy Mitchell said: "The South Korean banderole was apparent in the video amalgamation on the awning afore the admission and the North Koreans were artlessly actual agitated about that...

"A 18-carat aberration was fabricated for which we apologise."

BBC Scotland football anchorman Alasdair Lamont said that during the adjournment to the bold the army had become balked at a abridgement of information.

"I don't anticipate there was any acumen accustomed the absolute time afore the admission eventually took abode as to why there had been a hold-up," he said.

"They were artlessly accustomed a brace of letters adage there was 'an affair abaft the scenes, we're accomplishing our best to boldness it', and that was basically it."

One spectator, Paul, told BBC Radio 5 live: "An advertisement was fabricated that there was a abstruse botheration abaft the scenes, and alike again aback the players came aback on, they came aback on for a additional warm-up, and absolutely a ample allocation of the army started booing."

North Korea's accompaniment account bureau KCNA fabricated no acknowledgment of the blooper in its address on Thursday of the team's 2-0 achievement over Colombia.

North Korea will face South Korea in the aboriginal annular of the men's Olympic table tennis aggregation accident afterwards the brace were fatigued adjoin anniversary added on Wednesday.