Ask a North Korean: How is sport viewed in the DPRK?

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Ask a North Korean: How is sport viewed in the DPRK?

Some fans sneak in liquor and "act just like the hooligans you’d see at the English football league"

Jinhyok Park July 14, 2016

Ask a North Korean: How is sport viewed in the DPRK?

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Jinhyok Park

Jinhyok Park joined NK News' Ask a North Korean contributors in spring 2016, and has education and living experiences in Pyongyang, North Korea and Washington, D.C. He is in his late 30s and married to a fellow North Korean defector. He came to U.S. in 2011 and is studying at a U.S. college. He can be reached at [email protected].

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