This is GPS, the Global Public Square. Welcome to all of you in the United States and around the world.

I'm Farid Zakaria.

On today's show, the Olympics this year are not just about sports but politics.

Just how close together will the Games bring South and North Korea?

How did we get here? And where will it lead?

Then a strange crisis that is only getting worse. Saudi Arabia versus Qatar.

What's going on? And why did Donald Trump get involved?

The nation of Qatar, unfortunately, has historically been a funder of terrorism.

I talked to the nation's foreign minister about whether there is a danger of another Middle Eastern war.

Also, the former TV star who may be Vladimir Putin's toughest competition.

36-year-old Zenya Sobchuk is running against the former KGB agent in next month's presidential elections.

Does she really think she has a chance? I will ask her.

Then a massive outbreak of violence in Afghanistan.

The experts agree it's because of something that happened in Washington.

Trump's Pakistan gambit and where it will end.

But first, here's my take.

I would like to briefly turn your attention away from Donald Trump briefly.

And toward that other thing happening in the world, you know, the Winter Olympics in Pyongyang,

it's worth focusing not just on the sports happening there, but on this year's host country, South Korea.

It is in some senses the most successful nation in the world, and its success provides some crucial lessons.

First, the economics. South Korea is in a league of its own.

In his 2012 book Breakout Nations, Richard Sharma observed that only two economies had grown at an average annual rate of more than 5% for five decades in a row.

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