SEOUL, Aug 16: A second North Korean shooter has been revealed as a drugs cheat after failing a doping test at the Asian championships held in December in Kuwait, a report said on Saturday.

Pistol shooter Kim Hyon-Ung was qualified for the Olympics but failed to make it to North Korea’s final list of shooters for the Beijing Games, South Korea’s Yonhap news agency said, quoting an unidentified South Korean official.

“Kim Hyon-Ung was barred from participating in the Games after it became known belatedly that he failed a doping test carried out during the Asian championships,” the official said.

“North Korean officials at that time claimed that Kim Hyon-Ung had taken some medicine for illness and this might have caused him to fail the test,” he said.

The report came a day after North Korea’s Kim Jong-Su, who won silver and bronze medals in Olympic shooting, failed a doping test.

Kim Jong-Su, who won silver in the men’s 50m pistol and bronze in the 10m pistol, tested positive for banned beta-blocker drugs which prevent trembling.—AFP