inv4zn
08-01-2010, 09:09 PM
Damn - everyone joked this was going to happen...and it actually did.
North Korean Soccer Team Coach publicly shamed and then sent to 14-hour workday labour camps...
Jeez.
The 23-man roster – minus its two Japanese-based ringers, Jong “Weepy” Tae-se and An Yong-hak – was hauled up on stage in front of 400 attendees at the inaptly named People’s Palace of Culture.
The audience included a large number of university students and athletes, as well as high party officials.
For the next six hours, players were reprimanded for failures in their play, according to a jarring report from Radio Free Asia.
This included a damning player-by-player appraisal of individual mistakes in play, provided by the country’s leading sports broadcaster.
More alarmingly, they were accused of “betraying” the country in the “great ideological struggle.”
After the players received their collective rollicking, the team was then forced to round on its coach, Kim Jong-hun.
...
In recent months, North Korea has executed two top officials – one who oversaw a recent disastrous currency revaluation and another in charge of diplomatic talks with South Korea. Both were subjected to the same sort of accusations of treachery before they faced the firing squad.
Rumours abound that coach Kim has been expelled from the Worker’s Party and forced into the construction industry as a labourer.
http://www.thestar.com/sports/soccer/article/842235--north-korea-soccer-coach-fears-for-his-life
North Korean Soccer Team Coach publicly shamed and then sent to 14-hour workday labour camps...
Jeez.
The 23-man roster – minus its two Japanese-based ringers, Jong “Weepy” Tae-se and An Yong-hak – was hauled up on stage in front of 400 attendees at the inaptly named People’s Palace of Culture.
The audience included a large number of university students and athletes, as well as high party officials.
For the next six hours, players were reprimanded for failures in their play, according to a jarring report from Radio Free Asia.
This included a damning player-by-player appraisal of individual mistakes in play, provided by the country’s leading sports broadcaster.
More alarmingly, they were accused of “betraying” the country in the “great ideological struggle.”
After the players received their collective rollicking, the team was then forced to round on its coach, Kim Jong-hun.
...
In recent months, North Korea has executed two top officials – one who oversaw a recent disastrous currency revaluation and another in charge of diplomatic talks with South Korea. Both were subjected to the same sort of accusations of treachery before they faced the firing squad.
Rumours abound that coach Kim has been expelled from the Worker’s Party and forced into the construction industry as a labourer.
http://www.thestar.com/sports/soccer/article/842235--north-korea-soccer-coach-fears-for-his-life