{"id":598895,"date":"2025-11-28T08:56:14","date_gmt":"2025-11-28T08:56:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/598895\/"},"modified":"2025-11-28T08:56:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T08:56:14","slug":"north-korea-russia-deepen-sports-cooperation-with-soccer-and-hockey-matches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/598895\/","title":{"rendered":"North Korea, Russia deepen sports cooperation with soccer and hockey matches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>North Korean and Russian athletes squared off in friendly soccer and ice hockey matches this week, highlighting the countries\u2019 deepening sports diplomacy amid their shared isolation in the international sports community.<\/p>\n<p>The North Korean women\u2019s soccer team on Thursday defeated the visiting Russian national team by 5-2 in a match at Pyongyang\u2019s Kim Il Sung Stadium, in front of an audience of North Korean \u201cworkers, athletes and soccer fans\u201d and Russian Embassy staff, the state-owned Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) <a href=\"https:\/\/kcnawatch.org\/newstream\/1764279777-375938539\/%EC%9A%B0%EB%A6%AC-%EB%82%98%EB%9D%BC-%EA%B5%AD%EA%B0%80%EB%85%80%EC%9E%90%EC%B6%95%EA%B5%AC%EC%A2%85%ED%95%A9%ED%8C%80%EA%B3%BC-%EB%A1%9C%EC%94%A8%EC%95%BC-%EA%B5%AD%EA%B0%80%EB%85%80%EC%9E%90\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a> Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"North Korean and Russian athletes squared off in friendly soccer and ice hockey matches this week, highlighting the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":598896,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7655],"tags":[2766,95012,332],"class_list":{"0":"post-598895","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-russia","8":"tag-culture","9":"tag-foreign-relations","10":"tag-russia"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115626494309809962","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=598895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598895\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/598896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=598895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=598895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=598895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}