Report of North Korea's "women's soccer puppet Korea's victory" Taegeuk Mark Mosaic

The news that North Korea defeated South Korea in the 2024 Asian Football Confederation (AFC) U-17 Women's Asian Cup was reported on the 13th, a week after the game ended.

The Korean Central News Agency said on this day, "The 2024 Asian Football Confederation Women's Asia Cup under the age of 17 is being held in Indonesia." The Korean team, which belongs to Group 1, beat the puppet Korean team 7-0 in the first match on the 6th. “It was reported.

The news agency said, “Our players defeated the Philippine team 6-0 on the 9th and the Indonesian team 9-0 on the 12th,” and added, “Our team advanced to the semifinals with first place in the group.”

Chosun Central TV reported the same story this afternoon and showed a photo of the game on the screen, but at this time, the Korean flag on the sleeve of the Korean player's uniform was mosaicized.

Chosun Central TV has a history of mosaicizing the Korean flag when broadcasting the 2022 Qatar World Cup match.

The news that North Korea won the semi-finals of the U-20 Women's Football Asian Cup against North Korea on March 13 was delivered the day after the game, but this time, the report reflected the comprehensive results of the game after completing the group stage. It appears that there is a time lag for this purpose.

The match on March 13th was recorded and broadcast on Chosun Central TV four days later, on March 17th. At this time, the South was referred to as ‘Korea’. The commentator referred to Korea as the "opponent team" without mentioning it. However, at this time, the Taegeukgi captured on camera and the Taegeuk mark on the uniform were left untouched.

The Korean women's U-17 national team lost 0-7 to North Korea in the first match of Group A of the tournament held at the Bali United Training Center in Indonesia on the 6th.

Meanwhile, since the second half of last year, North Korea's state-run media has been referring to South Korea as 'puppet' rather than 'South Korea', which implies that the South and North are Koreans, and has frequently used the expression 'puppet Korea' since February of this year. there is.

This reflected North Korea's perception that it no longer views South Korea as a Korean people or an object of unification, but as a different country.

At the Workers' Party's plenary meeting in December last year, Chairman Kim Jong-un defined inter-Korean relations as "a relationship between belligerents in war" and also stated that "words with the potential to mislead the North and the South into being compatriots" should not be used. 고스톱