North Korean TV airs South Korea's heavy defeat to Brazil at the FIFA World Cup | Image: KCTV (Dec. 7, 2022)
North Korean state media broadcast a South Korean game from the Qatar World Cup for the first time on Wednesday, allowing domestic audiences to see Brazil rock the ROK national team 4-1 in what one expert called a show of “pettiness” toward Seoul.
Korean Central Television (KCTV) has broadcast most games in this tournament after a delay of a day or two, including those featuring the U.S. and Japan, but the South Korean soccer team’s absence until now was quite conspicuous.
North Korean state media broadcast a South Korean game from the Qatar World Cup for the first time on Wednesday, allowing domestic audiences to see Brazil rock the ROK national team 4-1 in what one expert called a show of “pettiness” toward Seoul.
Korean Central Television (KCTV) has broadcast most games in this tournament after a delay of a day or two, including those featuring the U.S. and Japan, but the South Korean soccer team’s absence until now was quite conspicuous.
Shreyas Reddy is a correspondent at NK News, based in Seoul. He previously worked as a researcher at BBC Monitoring, where his work focused on news and key people and organizations from the Korean Peninsula, Japan, Southeast Asia and the Pacific. Follow him on Twitter @shreyas_k_reddy.