{"id":679125,"date":"2026-05-19T06:46:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T06:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/679125\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T06:46:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T06:46:10","slug":"north-korean-soccer-team-appears-in-rare-press-conference-before-game-in-south","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/679125\/","title":{"rendered":"North Korean soccer team appears in rare press conference before game in South"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Members of a North Korean women\u2019s soccer team appeared before foreign news reporters in a rare press conference Tuesday in Suwon city, South Korea, ahead of the upcoming Asian Football Confederation (AFC) Women\u2019s Champions League\u2019s semifinal match against their South Korean counterparts.<\/p>\n<p>Head coach Ri Yu Il of the Pyongyang-based Naegohyang Women\u2019s Football Club took several questions from reporters during the roughly eight-minute press conference, limiting his answers to the upcoming game against South Korea\u2019s Suwon FC women\u2019s soccer club scheduled late Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe came here for the match,\u201d Ri said in response to a question about the roughly 3,000<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Members of a North Korean women\u2019s soccer team appeared before foreign news reporters in a rare press conference&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":679126,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,569,240649,561,82],"class_list":["post-679125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-culture","tag-inter-korean","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=679125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679125\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/679126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=679125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=679125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=679125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}