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 Posted: Tue Aug 08, 2006 4:41 pm Post subject: North Korean soccer hooligans |
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http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Korea/GD19Dg01.html
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For decades, the commonly accepted truth of North Korea watching was that the North Koreans do not rebel. It was widely believed that after decades of Stalinist-style rule - arguably, the harshest and purest form of such rule the world has ever seen - the North Koreans were almost incapable of any acts of open resistance to authority. Some observers explained this presumed docility by citing the intense brainwashing that allegedly conditioned the North Koreans into a robot-like mental state, while others believed the reason was ingrained terror. At any rate, more or less everybody agreed that an open revolt in North Korea was unthinkable.
Then the unthinkable happened.
This was not exactly an outbreak of revolutionary violence, of course. On March 30, soccer teams from North Korea and Iran were playing a World Cup qualifying match in Pyongyang's Kim Il-sung Stadium before an estimated 50,000 fans. The outcome pretty much would determine whether North Koreans would be able to continue competing for the World Cup, so everything was at stake for them, the robots or terrorized population.
In the middle of the game, there was a heated argument between a North Korean player and a referee. Passions boiled over and Korean defender Nam Song-chol shoved Syrian referee Mohamed Kousa. The player was sent off, as is customary in such situations.
And then the violence erupted. The North Korean fans began to throw bottles, chairs and everything they could find at the Iranian players and referees. It took a few minutes before order was restored while the stadium loudspeakers demanded that fans stay calm. |
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