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 neighboring South Korea in eight years. READ: A look at North-South Korean sports ties 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 politics 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, […]... Keep on reading: North Korean football team ventures into South

Original source: Philippine Daily Inquirer