SEOUL — Dashing previous expectations that up to 40,000 North Koreans would cheer their national football team on in a derby with the South, the two Koreas played with the World Cup qualifier to a vacant Kim Il Sung Stadium in Pyongyang on Tuesday. Two Korean football stars played in the game the South’s Son Heung-min, a forward at Tottenham Hotspur in England, along with the North’s Han Kwang-song, a striker in the Indians, Juventus. The first use of tear gas in Victoria Park has been an attempt to nip in the bud a rally billed as an”emergency call” for autonomy for Hong Kong, which was assured its freedoms as it returned to Chinese rule under a”one nation, two systems” formula. Saturday’s rally in the park wasn’t granted official police consent, as is demanded, but that hasn’t stopped people collecting before.
Oct, 2020
