Category: Sports

Once again, this is why North Korea should be banned from FIFA play pending further investigation and monitoring of how it treats its players and coaches: The team and coach Kim Jong Hun were summoned to a meeting at the People’s Palace of Culture in Pyongyang on July 2, the U.S.-financed Radio Free Asia reported Monday. Sports Minister Pak Myong Chol was among some 400 government officials, athletes and others at the six-hour-long closed-door session, the report said. Team members...

Should we fear for the North Korean soccer team? Professor Sung Yoon Lee, in a must read analysis for GQ, explains why (at least in North Korean terms) their fate isn’t likely to be a severe as some people fear — and if there is a Korea authority who truly belongs in GQ, it’s Sung Yoon Lee. I tend to think that if North Korea was using the World Cup as a propaganda ploy, then it has to know that...