SEOUL - South Korea men's national soccer team plays in North Korea for the first time in almost three decades on Tuesday , with leader Kim Jong Un's reclusive state doing all it can to make sure the world doesn't see the game live.
The match is the first one the South Korean men's national team has played in North Korea since a friendly in 1990. North Korea intends to give the South Korean athletes and coaches a DVD of the match on Wednesday afternoon, shortly before they board a flight leaving North Korea, according to a Unification Ministry statement.
The two Koreas, technically still at war since their 1950-53 conflict ended without a peace treaty, rarely meet for competitive matches. When they have, politics has played a role.While South Korea allowed for the North Korean anthem and flag to be on display for the match it hosted, North Korea refused, forcing Fifa to move the match to Shanghai.
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