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Pyongshin Sangja · Joined: 20 Apr 2003 Location: I love baby!

Is this what Gwanghwamun will look like after re-unification?

Or is it more like downtown Seoul any day of the week?

Or does it look more like your workplace?

DPRK lose to Iran, angry scenes in Pyongyang - reports
Current Affairs
by Martyn Williams
In their latest World Cup 2006 Asian qualifying game, North Korea lost 0 - 2 to Iran at a game played in Pyongyang on Wednesday. The game started 15 minutes late for reasons that weren't immediately apparent, at least to the NHK (Japan) commentators during the live coverage on Japanese TV.

The crowd in the stadium roared each time North Korea took the ball anywhere near the Iranian goal and, from the almost total silence when the opposite happened, it seems there weren't many Iranians in the stadium.

The game turned ugly towards the end of the second half when referee Mohammed Kousa ruled against a handball.

North Korean players surrounded Kousa protesting his decision and the crowd threw objects, reportedly including bottles, onto the pitch. After several minutes of protests and confusion, North Korean defender Nam Song-Chol was handed a red card for pushing the referee - as is standard in such cases.

Reuters reported that "As trouble re-ignited at the final whistle, security forces were mobilised and stadium announcements warned the crowd of 60,000 to be calm."

AFP said, "After the final siren, Kousa and the two other referees were left standing on the pitch for more than 20 minutes as more bottles, some chairs and other objects were thrown from the crowd."

http://www.nkzone.org/nkzone/entry/2005/03/dprk_lose_to_ir.php

http://blog.marmot.cc/archives/2005/03/31/attack-of-the-killer-n-korean-football-hooligans/#comments

JacktheCat · Joined: 08 May 2004

One wonders what the NK security forces will do with the people they hauled away.

mercury · Joined: 05 Dec 2004 Location: Pusan

Wow, North Korea V.S Iran............................who will I route for?

matthews_world · Joined: 15 Feb 2003

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It doesn't really matter too much. It's not looking like they are going to qualify.

However, it doesn't help matters in the formation of a unified team in the future.

Zed · Joined: 20 Jan 2003 Location: Shakedown Street

Why can't the Axis of Evil just get along?

Ya-ta Boy · Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Location: Established in 1994

Cthulhu · Joined: 02 Feb 2003

mercury wrote:

animalbirdfish · Joined: 04 Feb 2004

VanIslander · Posted: Fri Apr 01, 2005 4:20 pm Post subject:

the sea of grey clothes looks creepy

though the masses around the bus look pretty tame compared to what happens when Americans mob together in protest

Pyongshin Sangja · Joined: 20 Apr 2003 Location: I love baby!

Ooooh. American protesters.

Baah.

mindmetoo · Joined: 02 Feb 2004

I once went to this inter-hagwon picnic. There were all these sporting events. Like that volleyball they play with their feet. Anyway, there was a bad call. Suddenly the players and the fans on the side lines, adults all, just erupted. Everyone rushing the ref, shouting, chaos. It reminded me of my class. One kid gets a piece of chalk that's longer than the rest and boom. Chaos.

Yaya · Joined: 25 Feb 2003 Location: Seoul

Japan is now trying to change the venue of its June match against North Korea. Considering how bad the Jap have pissed both Koreas off, I'd do the same.

Ryst Helmut · Posted: Sat Apr 02, 2005 8:21 pm Post subject:

I found Waldo!

!shoosh

Ryst