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1 week agoNorth Korean side wins in South to reach final
Naegohyang won 2-1 over Suwon to reach the Asian Women’s Champions League final, marking the first North Korean visit to South Korea since 2018.
The delegation of 27 players and 12 staff entered the country on Sunday before Wednesday's match between Naegohyang FC and South Korea's Suwon FC Women in Suwon. The visit has been approved under the inter-Korean exchange law and covers the players' stay until next weekend, though the team could leave earlier if eliminated, according to Seoul's unification ministry.
"The defense ministry suspended the Voice of Freedom broadcast as part of measures to ease military tensions with the North," ministry spokesperson Lee Kyung-ho said at a media briefing on Monday. The "Voice of Freedom, a psychological warfare broadcast, first aired in 1962 and has been on and off the airwaves with the tumultuous trajectory of inter-Korean relations. The program was said to broadcast outside information and K-pop music into North Korea, which strictly regulates the access its civilians have to external information.