Miscellany

North Korea accepted an invitation to compete at this year’s Olympics, ensuring a 100 percent turnout for the first time in the post-war era.

Of the 197 nations invited by the International Olympic Committee to send teams to Atlanta, North Korea had been the only one failing to reply.

In Portland, a financially troubled Japanese company has sold the Oregon Golf Club, site of the Fred Meyer Challenge, to a California real estate investment trust for $10.7 million.

National Golf Properties Inc. of Santa Monica, Calif., bought the private 18-hole course from Daioh International USA Corp.

In Lumberton, N.C., basketball star Michael Jordan’s brother testified that two NBA rings and a watch found at a murder defendant’s home belonged to Jordan’s dead father.