The coach of the first North Korean sports team to visit the South in eight years said his players were not “rough” as they prepare for Saturday’s Asian Women’s Champions League final. Naegohyang Women’s FC take on Japan’s Tokyo Verdy Beleza in the South Korean city of Suwon, having beaten Suwon FC Women in the […]
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North Korean women footballers land in South ahead of rare match
A North Korean women’s football team landed in South Korea on Sunday, marking the first visit by a sports team from the isolated country to its southern neighbour in eight years, to play in the Asian Champions League semi-finals. Naegohyang Women’s FC — which means “My Hometown” in Korean — emerged from South Korea’s Incheon […]
North Korean football team ventures into South
A women’s football club will on Sunday be the first sports team from North Korea to visit neighbouring South Korea in eight years. The isolated and nuclear-armed country’s Naegohyang Women’s FC will play the South’s Suwon FC Women three days later in the Asian Champions League semi-finals. AFP looks at the trip, the politics and […]
North Korean club to play rare football match in South
A North Korean women’s football club will become the first sports team from the country to play in South Korea since 2018 when they visit this month, Seoul’s unification ministry said Monday. The neighbours remain technically at war after their 1950-53 conflict ended in an armistice rather than a peace treaty, and sporting and cultural […]
North Korean leader’s slain half-brother was a CIA informant — Wall Street Journal
Kim Jong Nam, the half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un who was killed in Malaysia in 2017, had been an informant for the US Central Intelligence Agency, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday. The Journal cited an unnamed “person knowledgeable about the matter” for the report, and said many details of […]
Supposedly executed former North Korean nuclear envoy is alive: CNN
North Korea’s nuclear envoy, who a South Korean newspaper said last week had been executed, is alive but in custody and under investigation for his role in a failed summit with the United States, CNN reported on Tuesday. There has been a series of conflicting reports over the past five days about shakeups in the […]