You've Dishonored Your Country!
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- pango
North Korea's football coach has reportedly been punished for the team's poor performance at the World Cup by being forced to work as a builder.
Kim Jong-Hun received the shameful sentence after he and his players were subjected to a six-hour grilling by 400 communist party officials, South Korean media reported.
North Korea, in its first World Cup since 1966, lost all three group games including a humiliating 7-0 defeat to Portugal during the tournament.The squad were ordered to the World Cup inquisition at the People's Palace of Culture in the capital Pyongyang when they returned from South Africa.
Jong-Hun was punished after being accused of "betraying the trust" of Kim Jong-un - one of Supreme Leader Kim Jong-il's sons and heir apparent.
To add to his shame, the coach was also booted out of the Workers' Party of Korea.
The players also shared the embarrassment for not succeeding in their" ideological struggle", but were allegedly forced to blame the coach for their exit.Only two players escaped the wrath of the hardline officials - Japanese-born Jong Tae-se and An Yong-hak, who flew to Japan after the tournament.
However, media reports said the players got off lightly by North Korean standards.
"In the past, North Korean athletes and coaches who performed badly were sent to prison camps," a South Korean intelligence source told the Chosun Ilbo newspaper.During the tournament almost all live broadcasts of the North Korean team were banned on state television to avoid national embarrassment.
But the ban was lifted for North Korea's game with Portugal after the team put up a valiant struggle against Brazil to lose 2-1.
- detritus0
Not really sure that deserves a 'LOL'.
- airey0
here's another fun one that shows these guys got a pass:
North Korea executes official in charge of Seoul diplomacy
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/…
It is the latest reported death sentence for a North Korean official over policy failures.
- Continuity0
I wonder how much of this is fact, and how much of it is propaganda aimed at shoring up Western support for an eventual conflict ...
- conflict is still on. korean war never got called off.airey
- I mean active conflict, not passive one.Continuity
- Miesfan0
This is for the parades, poor soldiers...
