It's been about 4 years since the inter-Korean conflict

 

North Korea's national soccer team will be playing a national soccer game at home for the first time in four years.

 

According to the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) website on the 31st (Korean time), the 2026 North and Central America World Cup Asian region second qualifying match between North Korea and Japan will be held at Kim Il-sung Stadium in Pyongyang at 5 p.m. on March 26.

 

If this game goes ahead as scheduled, North Korea will hold its first international match at home in over four years.

 

North Korea has not held an international match at home since playing the 2022 Qatar World Cup Asia 2nd qualifying match against South Korea at Kim Il-sung Stadium on October 15, 2019.

 

At that time, in the match against South Korea, North Korea held the game without spectators, emptying Kim Il-sung Stadium, which can accommodate about 40,000 people. In addition, it was controversial as it could not be broadcast live due to local broadcasting and internet conditions.

 

North Korea later played consecutive away games against Turkmenistan and Lebanon in November 2019, then withdrew from the 2020 World Cup qualifiers in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic. 안전 토토사이트

 

North Korean soccer, which had disappeared from the international stage for a while, returned through the Hangzhou Asian Games in September last year, and the A national team also returned through this North Korea-Central America World Cup qualifier.

 

On November 16 last year, North Korea played its home game against Syria in the first leg of the World Cup 2nd qualifying round (0-1 loss) in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, a third country.

 

Then, on November 21st, they won 6-1 in the second game away to Myanmar and are in second place in Group B after Japan (6 points).

 

North Korea will play the third game at the Tokyo National Stadium on March 21 and then continue the fourth game in Pyongyang.

 

Meanwhile, North Korea will also play a women's soccer qualifier for the 2024 Paris Olympics against Japan next month prior to the North Korea, Central America, and North America World Cup qualifiers.

 

The first home game, which will be played home and away, will be held at Kim Il-sung Stadium on February 24th, and the second game will be held at Tokyo National Stadium on February 28th. 카지노