Over 60 Sportsmen and Sportswomen of DPRK Will Go to Beijing

Pyongyang, July 23 (KCNA) -- The 29th Olympic Games is scheduled in China next month. Jong Hae Man, vice-chairman of the Sports Subcommittee of the DPRK Olympic Committee, told KCNA that more than 60 sportsmen and sportswomen of the country will compete in over 10 events at the Olympics. The women's football team with Ri Kum Suk, a world women's football master, as its captain has won landslide in Asian regional games over Australia, Taipei of China and Hong Kong of China held in Juche 96 (2007) to be qualified for the Olympics. Kye Sun Hui, a "Kim Il Sung Prize" laureate, a Labor Hero, a People's Athlete and a four-time world judo champion, and An Kum Ae of the Moranbong Sports Group have been qualified for the Olympics by finishing respectively first and third in the 2007 world judo championships. Cha Kum Chol, a weightlifter, and Cha Kwang Su, a wrestler, of the April 25 Sports Group, Im Yong Su, a weightlifter of the Kigwancha Sports Group, Pak Hyon Suk, a weightlifter of the Amrokgang Sports Group, and others will take on world's sports masters. They emerged successful in the 2007 world men's weightlifting championships, 2008 Asian wrestling championships and other international tournaments. Many other sportsmen and sportswomen including Kwon Un Sil, Kim Jong Su, Ryu Myong Yon, Pak Jong Ran and Jo Yong Suk of the April 25 National Defence Sports Group, Son Hye Yong of the Amrokgang National Defence Sports Group and Kim Song Guk of the Pyongyang City Sports Group will compete in archery, shooting, boxing, table-tennis, marathon, gymnastics, diving and synchronized swimming. Now they are all full of confidence to display the honor of the DPRK with high scores by applying Korean-style competing principles and methods in each game.

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• olympics
• 2008

[atiu88]

The Korean Central TV has devoted a portion of its primetime newscast to international news and sports events like the latest happenings on european football and the olympics so the olympic infrastructure is reported.

[yorubablk3]

Aggressors from Alexander of Macedon to Obama always characterize their aggression as 'help'.Thats the point.But who they are actualy helping is themselves.How can one tell?Watch how the 'helping' aggressors treat those that resist their 'help'.Then the actual policy is revealed as they maim,murder & slaughter resisters & or those sympathetic to them .

[Choson4eva]

I don't deny that the USA is an aggressor. There is no way that they can recoup the costs of the wars they have entered into. They genuinely believe that they are helping the people in those countries.

[yorubablk3]

Now how about the USA?Well since 1950,Vietnam,the Dominican Republic,Haiti,Grenada,Lebanon­,Sudan,Somalia,Congo,Iraq,Aphg­anistan...gee,i'm starting to see a pattern here!

[yorubablk3]

As for the 'Korean war',60 years on,we can all see who was the 'expansionist aggressor' there.How many civil wars has N Korea instigated,countries invaded,pro DPRK puppet regimes installed or foreign resources parlayed back to the DPRK?Let's see..how about.. 0!

[yorubablk3]

Neither.I was simply addressing the 'reason why' USA entertainment culture is globally ubiquitous & why the DPRKs' isn't.

[Choson4eva]

@yorubablk3 is that sarcasm or did you forget the Korean War?

[yorubablk3]

@Choson4eva ,well thats because North Korean culture is not aggressively intrusion,expansionist,nor hegemonic based on previous global military invasions,money bribes,or control of international institutions as is the entertainment culture that stems from the USA.

[Choson4eva]

The difference is that people all over the world (not just USA) would recognise a couple of those people, but noone except North Koreans would be expected to know about North Korean artists, music or entertainers. I've never heard of bob dylan lol who is that?

[yorubablk3]

Your watching a clip of that when you veiw this video..

[yorubablk3]

And people in the USA don't know squat about North Korean artist,music or entertainers.Hell,they don't know about N Korean movies or TV sitcoms....so who's isolated?