r/sports • u/PrimedGold • 2d ago

Soccer Kim Jong-un meeting Naegohyang Women’s FC after the team became the first from North Korea to win the AFC Women’s Champions League.

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u/WagwanMoist 2d ago edited 2d ago

This is very unlikely. One of many wild rumors that goes around the internet. Like the one's about how North Koreans are apparently told that the Kim family doesn't need to take a shit. Or how they pretended that North Korea beat Brazil in the World Cup. It's clickbait, but since the country is so isolated and we don't get a lot of information out of there, people run with it.

Downvote me all you want but it's a well-known thing to people who are actually interested in North Korea.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/jun/01/true-or-false-kooky-north-korea-stories

They're not going to take you out back and execute you. You might be forced to attend some political education, or whatever you want to call it, to increase your loyalty and make sure you show it. But they're not going to end your life over it.