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North Korea's women's soccer team has confirmed its advance to the 2026 Asian Football Confederation (AFC) Asian Cup ...
North Korea lags behind most of the rest of the world in several areas. But the hermit state has had an outsized impact on international women's football.
Juche, North Korea’s unique state ideology, further imparts the importance of sacrificial dedication and self-reliance upon North Korean women. In essence, the North Korean state has been using ...
North Korea remains a tough place to be a woman. While the lives of some North Korean women have improved, it's important to stress that they are still living in a dictatorship with limited ...
According to United Nations' assessments, the average North Korean woman has 1.79 children over her lifetime, a rate that falls short of 2.1 needed to maintain the population.
The rise and fall of North Korea - the sleeping giant of women's football "Normally when there are 30 shots in the game, it is the United States with about 25 of 'em. Not today!" It wasn't just ...
Women who do not work (only an estimated 5-10 percent of women in North Korea remain in the workforce after having children) are also required to be members of the Social Women’s Union of Korea ...
North Korea is often described as one of the most repressive countries in the world. But a new exhibition at the University of Technology Sydney aims to reflect how North Korean women are flipping ...
The Sheffield DocFest documentary 'North South Man Woman' by Morten Traavik, Sun Kim follows a refugee matchmaker looking to heal the divided Korea.
In South Korea, right-leaning young men are less likely to focus on North Korea than feminism, which — for them — has become ...
Weich relays a theory that North Korea's focus on women's football sprung from a stage in Mexico in 1986. At that year's Fifa congress, Norwegian Ellen Wille, only 4ft 11in tall, stepped up to the ...