{"id":700874,"date":"2026-05-29T05:17:26","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T05:17:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/700874\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T05:17:26","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T05:17:26","slug":"north-korea-gives-a-heros-welcome-to-victorious-womens-soccer-squad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/700874\/","title":{"rendered":"North Korea gives a hero\u2019s welcome to victorious women\u2019s soccer squad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\tNorth Korea gives a hero\u2019s welcome to victorious women\u2019s soccer squad\t<\/p>\n<p>A recap of everything in state media this week, from sports patriotism and rice transplanting to talks with Singapore<\/p>\n<p class=\"author-date\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nknews.org\/pro\/content_author\/seung-yeon-chung\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Seung-Yeon Chung<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\tMay 29, 2026\n\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<img width=\"935\" height=\"500\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=\" http:=\"\" class=\"img-fluid w-100 wp-post-image\" alt=\"North Korea gives a hero\u2019s welcome to victorious women\u2019s soccer squad\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" data-lazy- data-lazy- data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/edited_2025-05-27_kcna_naegohyang_airport-935x500.png\"\/>\t<\/p>\n<p>Naegohyang players receive a warm welcome at Pyongyang International Airport. | Image: KCNA (May 27, 2026)<\/p>\n<p>North Korean state media hyped a series of international sporting victories as vindications of the country\u2019s political system this week, reporting that these \u201cpatriotic offerings\u201d brought joy to a population carrying out Ninth Party Congress goals.<\/p>\n<p>The women\u2019s soccer players took titles at the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) U-17 Women\u2019s Asian Cup and Asian Women\u2019s Champions League, while weightlifters posted strong results at the 2026 Asian Weightlifting Championships. DPRK outlets interpreted the wins as evidence of Pyongyang\u2019s elevated standing on the world stage.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>On the agricultural front, state media reported on<\/p>\n<p>\u00a9 Korea Risk Group. All rights reserved.<br \/>No part of this content may be reproduced, distributed, or used for<br \/>\n\t\t\tcommercial purposes without prior written permission from Korea Risk<br \/>\n\t\t\tGroup.\n\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"North Korea gives a hero\u2019s welcome to victorious women\u2019s soccer squad A recap of everything in state media&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":700875,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,569,184840,139,561,82],"class_list":["post-700874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-culture","tag-foreign-relations","tag-leadership","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700874","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=700874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700874\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/700875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=700874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=700874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=700874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}