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The North Korea-South Korea World Cup Qualifier Was Played In A Silent, Violent HazeOn Tuesday, North Korea hosted South Korea in the two countries’ first-ever competitive match in Pyongyang against one another. However, there were no reports on the game from inside the 50,000-seat Kim Il-sung stadium until Thursday. That’s because North Korea held the match under a media blackout,...

North And South Korea Want To Co-Host The Olympics, And The IOC Gets To Keep Playing HeroIn its new year’s letter, one of the key accomplishments the IOC touted was improved relationships on the Korean peninsula, all because in 2018 the North and South Korean delegations marched in the opening ceremonies at the Winter Games together. “With these powerful symbols and gestures in PyeongCh...

The IOC Graciously Takes Credit For Improved Relationship On Korean PeninsulaThe international sports cartel better known as the IOC released its annual statement about the year that was and what’s to come in 2019 and it’s very much like the IOC itself: bloated, self-congratulatory, and devoid of substance....

Ho Hum, Dennis Rodman Weeping On CNN Over The Personal Sacrifices He's Made To Broker Peace With North Korea

Monday night North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Un joined a historic summit with Donald Trump, a sleazy failed businessman turned sleazy reality television star turned sleazy opportunistic Republican turned President of the United States, and I mean to tell you we haven’t even gotten to the truly psyche...

For Those Who Want "One Korea," The Unified Hockey Team Is A Starting Place

GANGNEUNG, South Korea — Even with more than two hours left before the puck was scheduled to drop between the Koreans and their heavily favored Swiss opponents, a taxicab couldn’t get anywhere near the arena. I’d assumed, and planned for, the first game featuring a joint team of players from both No...

North Korea And South Korea Agree To Form Joint Olympic Hockey Team

North Korea and South Korea have agreed to form a joint Olympic women’s hockey team and march together during the opening ceremonies next month in Pyeongchang, according to the Associated Press. ...

North Korea Strikes Deal To Send Athletes To Pyeongchang Olympics

North Korea and South Korea just wrapped up their first official diplomatic talks in two years, and the two sides agreed to provisions that will see the DPRK participate in their first Winter Olympics since 2010. After negotiating in the Demilitarized Zone, the countries decided to reopen a military...

Dennis Rodman Is Back In North Korea For Some Reason

Former Jordan sidekick Dennis Rodman, last seen palling around with North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un and offering some quarter-baked thoughts about protestors, is back doing what he does best, which is wedging himself back into the spotlight in the most moronic way possible. Rodman has visited Nort...

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Teenaged Korean Goalkeeper Is God-Awful At Pretending To Try To Stop This Goal

Thanks to the internet’s first helpful Youtube commenter, we know that this North Korean youth team was most likely actively trying to lose to avoid playing a better team in the knockout round of the Asian Federation’s U-16 Championship. So we can say pretty definitively that this Korean keeper was ...

by Billy Haisley|

|Thu Sep 29 2016

Dennis Rodman Is Fundamentally Evil

Dennis Rodman is a troll. Before dedicating any more thought to his opinions and politics than you would to those of a subway evangelist, remember that. But that doesn't stop him from being run out on TV and in interviews as an expert in North Korean affairs or racial politics in America. He may jus...

by Kyle Wagner|

|Wed Dec 10 2014

Cheerlessly, Asian Games Begin

The Olympic-style Asian Games open today in Incheon, South Korea, providing a flag-spangled stage on which to celebrate the universal sport of politics. North Korea has reestablished its dominance in this arena by first deploying, then withdrawing, their newest weapon—feminine charm....

by Sarah Barker|

|Wed Sep 28 2016

North Korea Is Another Year Closer To Soccer World Domination

On the eve of the World Cup, North Korea's FIFA ranking is holding steady at 137, which sounds pretty bad until you remember that places the North Koreans ahead of fully 70 other countries, unincorporated territories, protectorates and, in the case of No. 177 Curaçao, even an overachieving liqueur. ...

by Sam Eifling|

|Mon May 26 2014

Scenes From North Korea's Marathon

Yesterday for the first time in the 27-year history of the Pyongyang marathon, North Korea allowed foreign amateur and professional runners to take part. Competitors from 27 countries ran in front of crowds gathered in Kim Il Sung Stadium and around Kim Il Sung University in part to celebrate Kim Il...

by Dave Mayers|

|Mon Sep 26 2016

In 1995, WCW and NJPW put on a show in front of 190,000 fans in Pyongyang. Over at For The Win, Ric Flair recalls his trip to North Korea. ...

by Barry Petchesky|

|Wed Jan 22 2014

Just back from his latest trip to North Korea, Dennis Rodman has entered rehab. "His drinking escalated to a level that none of us had seen before," said his agent. [CNN]...

by Tom Ley|

|Tue Jan 21 2014

Here's Dennis Rodman Singing "Happy Birthday" To Kim Jong-un

Despite yesterday's mini-mutiny, the game between the Rodman-led former NBA players and a team of North Korean all-stars went off without a hitch today. The NBAers lost the game, because they'd like to return home, but before tip-off Rodman led the crowd in a serenade of Supreme Leader for his birth...

by Barry Petchesky|

|Wed Jan 08 2014

Dennis Rodman's North Korea Trip May Be Falling Apart

Dennis Rodman has been gung-ho about his latest trip to North Korea, a matchup between former NBA players and DPRK all-stars as a "birthday present" for Kim Jong-un. He might be the only one. The Associated Press reports that a number of the players on the trip are expressing second thoughts about g...

by Barry Petchesky|

|Tue Jan 07 2014

Seven Former NBA Players Join Dennis Rodman In North Korea

Dennis Rodman has recruited some allies on his latest basketball diplomacy trip to North Korea. Rodman's team will be playing a team of North Korean all-stars on Wednesday, "a birthday present" for BFF Kim Jong-un. ...

by Barry Petchesky|

|Mon Jan 06 2014

North Korean Prison Camp Survivor Writes Open Letter To Dennis Rodman

Dennis Rodman is back visiting his buddy Kim Jong-un on yet another PR trip—PR for Rodman, for the Irish betting company that's sponsoring his trip, and for North Korea itself. It comes days after a massive and deadly purge of perceived challenges to Kim's power, and as an American citizen has langu...

by Barry Petchesky|

|Fri Dec 20 2013

This Wire Story Gives Not A Single Shit About North Koreans

The Associated Press just published a story about Dennis Rodman's latest endorsement venture and his untethered blather about what good buds he is with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un. Read the whole thing here, if you have two minutes for an extra-large helping of starry-eyed banality. Here are ...

by Sam Eifling|

|Wed Mar 26 2014

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