North Korean football team ventures into SouthPublished on: May 15, 2026 12:58 AM
Pakistan, May 15 -- 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 the logistics.
The two Koreas remain technically at war because the 1950-53 conflict ended in an armistice, not a peace treaty. Sports cooperation helped trigger a thaw in inter-Korean ties after North Korea sent athletes, cheerleaders and a high-level delegation to the 2018 Winter Olympics in the South. The two Koreas also fielded their first unified Olympic team - a joint women's ice hocke...
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