Dictator Kim Jong-un has given Tottenham Hotspur their marsorders.
The 26 million citizens of Noord -Korea sit down to watch football matches from the English top flight for the news from 5 pm. But the regime does not show any collisions with teams with players from old Rivals Zuid -Korea.
That means wrestling Spurs and the skipperzoon of the Heung-Min team are never seen on the North Korea version of Match of the Day. The reporting last year also omitted Hwang Hee-Chan from Wolverhampton Wanderers and Kim Ji-Soo, who is in the ranks of Brentford.
Matches are shown on the state run KCTV four months after they have been played, so that the matches of last August were seen in January. The findings came in a report from the 38 North Project of the Washington -based Stimson Center.
It said that the North Korean television schedules are full of propaganda, but sport is “one of the few moments every day when State TV does not try to send an open or underlying message to his viewers”.
Senior colleague Martyn Williams added: “There was no intention in the study, except that we found it interesting. We just saw a lot of football on KCTV. It is the most important international sport they broadcast.”
The report said that in 2023 KCTV showed action from the Premier League, World Cup and Champions League. Matches are shortened from 90 minutes to 60 minutes and are almost certainly a violation of copyright, according to the report.
Noord -Korea has no agreement to show highlights of Premier League TV.
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