North Korea women's soccer team arrives in South Korea
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STORY: The North Korean women's soccer team arrived in Seoul for a regional tournament on Thursday just month after missile tests and threats of nuclear war pushed the peninsula close to conflict.
The four-nation Women's East Asian cup, which also features China and Japan, sees South Korea face their bitter rivals from the North at Seoul's World Cup stadium on Sunday.
The tournament takes place with the two Koreas engaged in rare talks aimed at restarting a jointly run industrial project in Kaesong, which closed in April as relations between Seoul and Pyongyang plummeted.
The closure of the park, a money-spinner for the impoverished North, came after North Korea threatened strikes with nuclear and other missiles against the South and the United States after the United Nations imposed toughened sanctions on the North for its third nuclear test in February.
Some experts said that sport seems to be one area in which the North
STORY: The North Korean women's soccer team arrived in Seoul for a regional tournament on Thursday just month after missile tests and threats of nuclear war pushed the peninsula close to conflict.
The four-nation Women's East Asian cup, which also features China and Japan, sees South Korea face their bitter rivals from the North at Seoul's World Cup stadium on Sunday.
The tournament takes place with the two Koreas engaged in rare talks aimed at restarting a jointly run industrial project in Kaesong, which closed in April as relations between Seoul and Pyongyang plummeted.
The closure of the park, a money-spinner for the impoverished North, came after North Korea threatened strikes with nuclear and other missiles against the South and the United States after the United Nations imposed toughened sanctions on the North for its third nuclear test in February.
Some experts said that sport seems to be one area in which the North