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Can a women's football team reconnect North and South Korea?
Key takeaways
- For the first time in more than seven years, North Korean athletes will compete in the South.
- For some, it is an indication that the North is deploying "sports diplomacy" to ease strained bilateral ties.
- Pyongyang allowing the athletes to travel to the South "is significant, given North Korea's shutdown of all dialogue with South Korea and its assertion of the enemy-state declaration vis-a-vis Seoul," Cha said.
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For the first time in more than seven years, North Korean athletes will compete in the South. Analysts are divided on whether it is a clever propaganda move by Pyongyang or a genuine step towards detente.
https://p.dw.com/p/5Duux Seoul hopes the match will 'tear down high barriers between the South and the North'Image: Jung Yeon-je/AFPAdvertisement North Korea's Naegohyang Women's FC is due to play a South Korean women's team in Suwon on May 20 — the first time Pyongyang has permitted its athletes to travel to the South in more than seven years.
For some, it is an indication that the North is deploying "sports diplomacy" to ease strained bilateral ties.
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