As North Korea prepare for their Olympic football match against the United States (women’s match scheduled for 5pm GMT, 31 July), Gerard Clare of NK News takes a closer look at the DPRK squad and their route to the big game. Will politics influence discussion around the matchup, or will conflict truly be set aside
Gerard Clare is a research student at the University of Glasgow in Scotland, specialising in issues of regionalism and centre-periphery relations in the Russian Far East, including how citizens on the periphery can identify with central representations of what it means to be Russian, and in what ways these representations may conflict with regional identities. [...] Click here for full bio page
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