North Korean women’s football club Naegohyang FC will visit South Korea to play a match against South Korea’s Suwon FC Women on May 20, South Korea’s Ministry of Unification said in a statement on Monday.
North Korea sent a list with the names of 27 players and 12 members of the coaching staff who would visit for the AFC semi-final, the ministry said.
The Endless War
Korea was divided into [1945shortly after the end of the Second World War, putting an end to 35 years of .
Between 1950 and 1953 the countries entered into armed conflict. As there was no signing of a peace treaty between those involved, the countries are still, technically, at war.
In another moment of unity through sport at the 2018 Winter Olympic Games, PyeongChang in South Korea, the countries paraded at the opening ceremony under a single flag, an event that went down in history due to the union of athletes on South Korean territory. Previously, in the 2000s, athletes from both nations had paraded together at the opening ceremony of the Olympics in Sydney, Australia.
