What Kim Jong Il Sees in His Nightmares

So, just how hard it is to picture this brawl happening over something other than soccer?

Well, so much for that highly ordered, robotically obedient society:

Angry North Korean soccer fans in Pyongyang pelted visiting players and referees with bottles and cans on Wednesday evening, requiring the intervention of the police and providing seldom seen evidence of spontaneous violence in the tightly controlled stat

Still, the story isn’t entirely amusing, as the BBC reports:

A North Korean defector and former football official told Reuters that his homeland had an organised society and such behaviour was unlikely to be tolerated.

“I have never seen anything like this myself,” he said. “The people responsible are likely to be tracked down and severely punished.”

But on the bright side, if there’s one nation on earth I want to have strained relations with North Korea, it’s Iran.

UPDATE: So, if you were playing for the Japanese team, might you be having a few second thoughts about attending that match in Pyongyang about now?