Rare, meaningful North Korean football team ventures into South
News Source : Yahoo Entertainment
News Summary
- The Naegohyang Women's FC will play the South's Suwon FC Women three days later.
- 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.
- But relations have sharply deteriorated since US-North Korea nuclear talks collapsed in 2019.
A womens football club will on Sunday be the first sports team from North Korea to visit neighbouring South Korea in eight years.The isolated and nucleararmed countrys Naegohyang Womens FC will [+4338 chars]
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