North Korea held a five-day course for the coaches of DPRK’s premier league football teams under the instruction of Lim Kim Chon, a FIFA instructor from Malaysia.

Taking place August 5-9, the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported that the course “dealt with several subjects such as the analysis of the Asian football teams participated in the 2013 FIFA U-20 World Cup, physical fitness of top players, tactics of (offense) and defense, collective and stonewall defense.”

The training course was part of FIFA’s development program, which offers technical, performance and infrastructural support to its member associations according to a certain