N. Korean women's football club to play tournament in South May 20

A North Korean women’s football club will travel to South Korea for an Asian Football Confederation (AFC) league match with a South Korean team later this month, according to the Korea Football Association (KFA), Monday. The KFA said that the confederation notified it last week of the North Korean club's participation in the semifinals of the AFC Women's Champions League (AWCL) Final 2026 to be held in Suwon, Gyeonggi Province, May 20. The delegation will consist of 39 people, including 27 players of the club, Naegohyang Women's FC, and 12 support staff. It will be the first time in eight years that North Korean athletes will participate in a sports event taking place in the South. The most recent such event was a table tennis world tour held in Incheon in December 2018 when five players took part in a unified team with South Korea. Their visit is drawing attention because it is taking place after North Korean leader Kim Jong-un defined the two Koreas as “two hostile countries in a state of war” in late 2023, meaning the North is sending its athletes to an enemy country at war. It

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