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six great-grandchildren for every 100 current Koreans

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Although your latest data about birth and marriages They seem to have given the country some respite, generally talking about demographics in South Korea requires adopting a disastrous tone. Almost funeral. The nation has been seeing for years how its fertility collapses little by little, moving further and further away from what is known as ‘replacement rate’ social. The situation is so critical who already drives a devastating projection: if nothing changes, for every 100 current South Koreans there will be only six great-grandchildren. And that (we repeat) if the birth rate does not continue to collapse. It is a very useful warning for sailors in Europe. A (devastating) figure: 0.7. That is the fertility rate that South Korea would register in 2023, according to World Bank data. The figure is far from the 1.5 that it managed at the beginning of the 21st century and well below the 4.5 of the 1970s. Although in 2024 the nation achieved rise slightly that indicator (up to 0.74), the truth is that Seoul has little reason to celebrate. Their birth rates are still light years away from those that would prevent the registry from beginning to decline (2.1 children per woman) and as soon as you search, you will find studies that warn of the impact that this demographic bleeding will have on your society, economy and even on the national defense. It may sound exaggerated, but South Korea already shows the characteristics of a society “super aged” and former president Yoon Suk Yeol even came to declare officially in 2024 the “national demographic emergency”. 100 South Koreans, 6 great-grandchildren. Korea’s demographic reality is what it is (bad), but there are different ways to address it. And some are so clear that they help to better understand the phenomenon. Perhaps the most resounding was presented a few days ago by Phoebe Arslanagić-Little in an extensive analysis published in Works in Progress. Among other issues, Arslanagić-Little reminds that with current fertility rates per 100 South Koreans today there will be only six great-grandchildren. And that is assuming that the country’s birth rate is stable and does not continue to deepen in the downward path that has been chaining for decades. The estimate is devastating, although it is not entirely new. In 2023 the famous pronatalist Malcolm Collins already issued a similar warning in an article published in The Telegraph: “At this rate, there will only be six great-grandchildren for every 100 current Koreans. And that’s assuming the fertility rate doesn’t continue to fall as it has done almost every year for the past two decades. That represents a 94% reduction in generation size next century.” A similar prediction is found in the media like the BBC. Why is it a problem? For several reasons. The first (and most obvious) is that a country in which the demographic engine has seized has three options, not exclusive: find a way to encourage their birthbet on immigration or resign yourself to seeing how your census decreases year after year. For now, in Seoul they are already conducting studies that show the consequences of this last scenario. Not long ago the Korean Peninsula Population Institute for Future (KPPIF) published a report in which he points out that, even in an optimistic scenario, the South Korean population risks suffering a drastic snip in the long term. From the current 51.68 million inhabitants it would rise to just 15.73 million in 2125. That is, in a century it would be less than a third of its current size. Click on the image to go to the tweet. Much more than demographics. The social and economic implications of such a scenario are evident. In 2024 the country will officially become a “super-aged” societya label that reveals that at least 20% of its population is over 65 years old. There are calculations that suggest that in 50 years the number of people of working age will have dropped by half and the population group of military service age will have been reduced by 58%. Even the Bank of Korea has raised his voice to remember that if the nation does not change its outlook and continues with its plummeting birth rate, it may be dragged (along with other factors) into a prolonged recession in the medium term, around 2040. Searching for the causes. South Korea’s demographic crisis is not new. Just as the factors that motivate it are not, a cluster of well-identified conditions that Arslanagić-Little cites in your article: the labor and professional costs of motherhood for women, the difficulties in conciliation, the economic burden of parenting in such a competitive society such as the Korean one, cultural changes in relationships between men and women, etc. The analysis is interesting because most of these factors are perfectly transferable to the West. There are others specific to the South Korean reality, such as the inherited effect of the antinatalist campaigns promoted last century. How to solve it? That is the question Korea must face if it wants to change its course. Especially because the country stands out for another factor: its low levels of immigration. It is estimated that foreigners represent just 5.1% of the total population, far from the data that Spain handles, for example. Here the INE calculates that 13.4% of residents In the country they have foreign nationality. The truth is that South Korea has been implementing policies to encourage births for some time, an effort that seems to be having results, although still very shy. The question remains whether or not the country will be able to make a demographic turnaround. Image | Enkuu Smile (Unsplash) In Xataka | South Korea has found the formula to improve its birth rate: companies pay fortunes to their employees to have children

The North Koreans are hungry, so they have started hunting tigers. It’s just the tip of the iceberg

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North Korea It is a unique country. so unique as airtight and, therefore, fascinating. Know What is an ordinary day in Pyongyang like?the capital, is tremendously complicated. On the one hand, we have the official speech of prosperity and normality. On the other hand, the stories from people who have been within its borders. But sometimes there are accidents and information is leaked, such as the systematic hunting of any animal that weighs more than 500 grams in order to survive another day. And the problem is so brutal that there are already those who point to a strong risk of “defaunation” of North Korea. In short. Joshua Elves-Powell is a researcher who, a few weeks ago, presented a study which analyzed North Korea’s wildlife trade. Obviously, obtaining first-hand information in the country seemed complicated, but Powell had an ace up his sleeve: the testimonies of 42 North Korean defectors. During 2021 and 2022, participants spoke in both South Korea and the United Kingdom and their testimony was devastating: North Korea has been hunting animals for decades to trade with them… and to eat them. In a serious study, these sources should have a first and last name, but due to the unique conditions of this studyit must be noted that the research was reviewed by the UCL Research Ethics Committee. The sample was large: all were over 18 years old and had left the country between 1950 and 2020. black market. Some context. In the 1990s, North Korea’s economy collapsed. In a period of famine, people do whatever it takes to survive, and the humanitarian crisis transformed the country’s relationship with its wildlife. According to testimonies, professional hunters, but also soldiers, black market regulars and wildlife consumers, set out to hunt animals like tigers and other species. The objective was not only to eat them (that too), but to sell them. One of the participants commented that he had been involved in the illegal trade of tiger bones from the Pyongyang Zoo in 2020 and had been able to obtain bones from professional hunters between 2014 and 2020. The hunted is not only sold on the local black market, but also in countries such as Chona or Russia. This clearly violates international conservation obligations and is supported by the seizure of products from time to time, such as the shipment of more than 100 bottles of tiger bone wine at the border between the two countries. Goals. What do they hunt? The research shows that virtually all native mammals weighing more than 500 grams are a viable target. Apart from Siberian tigers (of which part of their hunting is mentioned for food) and Amur leopards (food too), found in a tremendously sensitive moment Due to their scarcity, the prey are the following: Deer: for their meat and pieces such as antlers. Wild boars: for their meat. Asian black bears: get meat, bile, paws and skin. Asian badgers: to create medicinal oil. Porcupines: for their quills. Otters: for fur and trade. Red fox: skin. Gray wolf: fur. Raccoon: for its meat and for trafficking. Defaunation. This hunting is not usually done with firearms, but with an extensive network of traps that add a problem to the list: being an indiscriminate capture, non-target species fall, such as the Bengal cat (Prionailurus bengalensis). This massive hunt is causing what they have qualified as a “defaunation” process that implies that a scenario is occurring in North Korean forests in which there is no longer any fauna. It is something that affects both North Korea and the neighboring areas of China, Russia and South Korea. The Amur Lepartum And the State? in the garlicaccording to these informants. The problem is that we are talking about a market to, above all, create products focused on traditional medicine. For example, deer antlers are the essential ingredient for producing ointments with healing properties and Asian badger oil is used to treat skin conditions. In fact, there are hunters authorized by the State who must present pieces as a tribute and it is ensured that the country itself raises certain animals (such as bears for their bile) to obtain resources that are export to neighboring markets. They do so in facilities that operate under a façade of legality, but supposedly feeding the black market. Someone do something. Powell’s study presented the information and those defectors allowed us to know that side of North Korea. But of course, doing something is complex. Animal organizations consider that the country is a “black hole” for the recovery of fauna because there are no efforts to protect biodiversity. They denounce that it is a market that violates efforts to recover endangered species and, in addition, is a risk to public health. They call for international pressure, using these refugee testimonies as evidence, and specifically allude to China, asking to tighten monitoring of illegal imports. Finally, there is a call for North Korea to join the CITESthe treaty that regulates international trade in endangered species. And this, unfortunately, sounds quite complicated. Images | Uwe Brodrecht, Ltshears In Xataka | This rocket-shaped skyscraper is the “worst building in the world.” And it’s in North Korea, obviously.

There are fewer and fewer North Koreans fighting with Russia in Ukraine. An army has arrived with an irrefutable promise: Cubans

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For months, reports about foreign fighters in Ukraine indicated to North Korea as the main source of soldiers sent to support Russia. Then there was official confirmation by both nations. Quietly, however, that balance is shifting in surprising ways. On the board of the war in Eastern Europe, another country begins to displace Pyongyang in the role of largest supplier of troops to Moscow, an unexpected turn that reveals both the fragility of Russia and the depth of its authoritarian alliances. The Cuban front. What began as a regional invasion has transformed into a global war, in which Russia not only faces Ukraine and its Western allies, but also mobilize a network of regimes to sustain the war effort. Among them, Cuba emerges as an unexpected actor: according to Ukrainian estimates, up to 25,000 Cubans They could join the Russian front, becoming the largest foreign force in Ukraine, above the North Korean contingents. For the Kremlin, the usefulness of this formula it is evident: The casualties of foreign fighters do not generate internal protests, do not require compensation to Russian families and reduce the political cost of the conflict. In a country with more than one million estimated casualtiesattract soldiers overseas It is also a matter of strategic survival. A formula that is difficult to reject. The main motivation for many Cuban recruits is simple: economic. On an island mired in one of the worst crises in recent decades, where the average salary barely exceeds 20 dollars a month, the promises of charge $2,000 a month They fight any ideological objection. Some accept the contracts convinced, others are deceived with job offers in construction or factories, to discover upon arriving in Russia that their destination is the battle front. Analysts like Cristina López-Gottardi they point out that the economic attraction is irresistible, but they also highlight the political dimension: Havana obtains income from remittances from combatants and consolidates its alignment with Moscow, presenting it as a gesture of “revolutionary loyalty” and, incidentally, a symbolic challenge to Washington. Experts point out that the regime seeks reinforce your narrative anti-American, presenting participation as an act of internationalist solidarity, although in practice it is a source of foreign currency in times of hardship. Mercenaries, coercion and globality. The Cuban presence is part of a broader trend: the growing Russian dependence on foreign fighters. According to intelligence data, in 2025 almost half of the prisoners captured in Ukraine They were not Russian citizenswhen in 2022 they barely represented 1%. From Africans recruited under threats of deportation, until deceived students With false job offers in “shampoo factories”, including North Koreans sent as cannon fodder, Moscow turns to a whole mosaic of forced soldiers or mercenaries. In this sense, the Cuban contribution not only strengthens the Russian lines, but also magnify the image of a war waged by an international authoritarian axis that includes Iran, Venezuela, North Korea and now Cuba, sharing weapons, technology and experience on a battlefield converted into a laboratory for modern warfare with drones, electronic warfare and new combat tactics. Cuba as a diplomatic target. Cuban involvement in Ukraine has not gone unnoticed by the United States. The Trump administration has decided to use it as a central argument in his diplomatic offensive against Havana at the UN. An internal State Department cable, dated October 2, instructed US delegations to pressure allies to vote against the traditional annual resolution demanding an end to the US embargo on Cuba. Year after year, the measure has had overwhelming support (in 2024, 187 countries voted in favor and only the United States and Israel against), although Washington hopes to reduce that margin by presenting evidence that the Miguel Díaz-Canel regime has become in active accomplice of Russian aggression, with between 1,000 and 5,000 fighters deployed on the front. In the documents is underlined that Cuba “has failed to protect its citizens from being used as pawns” in the war, and the regime is accused of “undermining democracy” in the region, particularly through its alliance with Venezuela. The embargo and sanctions. Washington’s strategy seeks to disarm the Havana narrative, which presents the embargo as the root of all their evils. The diplomatic cable instructs to highlight the corruption and incompetence of the Cuban government, in addition to highlighting that the economic problems do not derive from the sanctions, but from its mismanagement. Trump, upon his return to the presidency, has hardened the restrictions: has reinstated Cuba to the list of countries sponsoring terrorism, has further limited financial transactions and has sanctioned third countries that collaborate with Cuban doctors abroad. Faced with this pressure, the Cuban regime accuses Washington of seeking a pretext for aggression and even instrumentalizing the anti-drug fight in the Caribbean as an excuse to increase tension. That said, the backdrop seems different: the combination internal collapse and military alliance with Moscow places Cuba at the epicenter of the geopolitical struggle between Washington and the authoritarian bloc. Military school. Beyond the diplomatic balances, what worries many analysts is that the war in Ukraine has become an involuntary academy for allied armies of Russia. Every foreign contingent that steps on the front learn first hand the techniques of the first great drone war in history: from swarm operations to electronic warfare. As warns Bill Colefounder of Peace Through Strength Institute“the real danger is not the thousands of Cubans or North Koreans sent, but what they learn and then export to other conflicts in Latin America, Africa or Asia.” This transfer of war knowledge turns war into a multiplier of global instability, with authoritarian regimes absorbing tactics and adapting them to their own scenarios. The Cuban paradox. The participation of thousands of Cubans in the Ukrainian war also reveals a paradox: while for the Havana regime it represents both a source of foreign currency and a reaffirmation of its anti-American identity, for Moscow it is a cheap solution and politically comfortable to internal wear and tear, and for Washington an opportunity to intensify diplomatic pressure … Read more

Young Koreans just want to be doctors

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While the two Koreas seems to be giving a trucewho knows if something else, the southern neighbors live with anguish a problem that has been entrenched too long: in an increasingly aged country, becoming old is a condemnation of poverty. And the young? They are also indirect protagonists of this endemic evil: they have agreed to study the same. Brain drain. In South Korea there is an unprecedented phenomenon: students even leave the most prestigious universities from the country (Seoul National, Yonsei and Korea University, known as the Sky Group) to pursue A career in Medicine. Only in 2024 they were recorded 2,481 dropouts In these three institutions, the highest figure in 18 years and 17% more than the previous year. Most of the deserters They came from the natural sciences and the humanities, attracted by the expansion of access quotas to the faculties of Medicine, which passed 3,000 to 5,000 places Annual in a government attempt by alleviating the shortage of doctors in an increasingly aged society. Medicine, perceived as the most prestigious and profitable profession in the country, has become the preferred destination even for those who had reached the quoted places of the elite universities. Pressure on medical schools. The change, however, is overflowing capacity of medical faculties, which already dragged structural problems. Overloaded teachers, massive strikes and classrooms They are now the norm, in a context where resources do not grow at the same rate as demand. At the same time, fundamental disciplines such as basic sciences and humanities They suffer from emptying that threatens the intellectual diversity of the country and erodes the long -term innovation potential. Academics like Theodore Jun Yoo They warn that this trend mine educational balance and puts at risk the production of critical thinking and technological advancement, while The low birth rate It reduces the need for new teachers and researchers, weakening the national academic base. The roots of the trend and the AI. The rise of this career towards medicine does not arise from nothing. Studies show that since 2022 more than A quarter Of the students with the best notes in the university admission exam, medicine to Sky universities have preferred, a sign that traditional disciplines have lost attractiveness as an option for the future. For academics such as Robert Fouser, the proliferation of artificial intelligence and the perception that humanities and sciences already They do not guarantee stability work have accelerated the leak. Japan experiences A similar phenomenonwith young people who choose regional medical schools instead of specializations in social or humanistic sciences in Tokyo, which reflects a regional pattern of more armored careers in the face of technological disruption. Mental of medicine. Paradoxically, some experts point out that this fever for medicine can Not being the panacea or the best bet In the long term. The profession itself is exposed to deep transformations derived from AI and demographic changes that are already affecting pediatrics, reduced by Birthday fall and the displacement of professionals towards more profitable specialties such as dermatology. In other words, this suggests that, in the long term, engineering or technological development careers could Offer more resilience than an overcrowded medical profession. Proposals to stop the crisis. Given this panorama, more and more critical voices ask the government to act quickly. It is raised Medical training more and force new graduates to work at least six years in rural areas, where the shortage of doctors is more pressing. These measures are looking for stop the avalanche towards the faculties of Medicine and redistribute human resources more balanced. However, the situation reflects a substantive tension: social obsession with economic stability and prestige, in the face of the national need to preserve a diverse university system capable of sustaining innovation and technological leadership. Educational crossroads. The “career towards medicine” in South Korea not only reveals social anxieties about the future work, but also exposes the limits of a model that privilege a single path to the detriment of other essentials for the integral development of the country. The risk It seems clear: In the search for individual security, the collective capacity of producing new ideas, of forming critical thinkers and of guaranteeing a balance in professional training is undermined. If you also want, the final paradox is that, in its attempt to ensure more doctors, South Korea could be weakening precisely the bases that have allowed it to prosper as one of the more innovative economies of Asia. Image | ITU PICTURES In Xataka | South Korea has found the formula to improve their birth rate: that companies pay fortunes to their employees for having children In Xataka | South Korea and North Korea had been engaged in the “Altavoces War” for years: it has suddenly ended

An army of 25,000 North Koreans addresses Russia. They will not fight, they will build the biggest army of kamikaze drones

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It is taking place A paradox in the war that is taking place in Europe. While Ukraine has weakened Russian artillery, another growing threat has been increasing more and more over the months. If kyiv became a industry of combat drones in record time, Moscow is determined to overcome. As? To begin with, with the arrival of thousands of North Koreans. Drones, workers and an alliance. The strategic alliance between Russia and North Korea has ceased to be a marginal cooperation to become a structural axis with direct implications in the evolution of the war in Ukraine and in the security architecture of Eastern Asia. According to diplomatic sources cited in media Japanese and Western, Pyongyang has begun to send an army of up to 25,000 workers to the Special Economic Zone of Alabuga, in the Russian Republic of Tartaristan. THE OBJECTIVE: Massive support the industrial production of Shahed dronesof Iranian origin, used by Moscow As a main weapon of saturation and attack in Ukraine. But there is more. This collaboration also includes knowledge transfer operational, training in the use of unmanned systems, and a component of reconstruction aid in combat areas, Like Kurskwhich has suffered important damage from the Ukrainian offensive of August 2024. The arrival of North Korean personnel not only represents a solution to the growing labor shortage qualified in Russia, but also contributes to consolidating a political and military axis based on convergent interests against the West. Mass kamikazes. The Alabuga factory, epicenter of the Russian Drones Shahed program, currently produces some 2,000 units per month with the objective of reach 5,000 Thanks to this new workforce. In fact, satellites They have detected an enormous expansion in the industrial zone, with the construction of Collective bedrooms designed to accommodate hundreds of workersfollowing an intensive and permanent occupation architecture. The logistics reinforcement aims to guarantee the continuity of production even under direct threat, since the plant has repeatedly suffered attacks by Ukrainian drones, as it happened June 15 with a Airrakt A-22 loaded with explosives that towed a glider, unpublished tactics Until then and capable of attacking two goals simultaneously. Russian Drones Shahed A key drone. The Russian need to maintain pressure on Ukrainian defenses has turned Shahed into the backbone of his aerial offensive. It We have counted before: these vehicles are modified to carry major explosive loads and, in some cases, elements of autonomy that make them more difficult to intercept. He massive use (With attacks that reach more than a hundred drones per night) it forces Ukraine to accelerate their anti -aircraft reserves, progressively weakening their defense and reaction capacity. Rebuild with military logic. The sending of North Korean workers is not limited to the production of weapons. After his visit to Pyongyang, Russian Defense Minister Serguéi Shoigú, confirmed the incorporation of about 1,000 North Korean and at least 5,000 civil workers which will participate in the reconstruction of destroyed infrastructure in Kursk. This region, invaded by Ukrainian forces In August 2024 And recovered by Russia after weeks of combat, it has been deeply damaged. Moscow considers its reconstruction essential both in terms of national morals and the logistics sustainability of the front. Not just that. They counted the Twz analysts that the initiative also responds to a Internal logic: Kremlin perceives Central Asian migrants as politically unstable and potentially vulnerable to recruitment for Western or Ukrainian intelligence services, which has driven the search of “Leales migrants”like North Koreans. A labor hybrid. According to General Ukrainian Kyrylo Budanovpart of these workers will end up signing Contracts with the Ministry Russian defense, constituting unofficial units of Russian nationality but North Korean origin, which would mark a new step in hybridization between foreign workforce and regular military structure. Inverse technological transfer. It is another leg to analyze. The alliance has an even deeper geopolitical dimension. According to BudanovRussia is actively helping North Korea to improve the accuracy of Your KN-23 ballistic missilesto Modernize your missiles long-range air-air and reinforce the capacities of Its nuclear submarinesparticularly in relation to missile launch from submerged platforms. Strategic evolution. In exchange for Labor and Cooperation Logistics, Moscow is consolidating a North Korean offensive capacity that could alter military balance in the Korean peninsula. In that sense and how We countPyongyang is developing (with Russian assistance) the necessary infrastructure to produce local versions Of the Shahed drones, which would endow the regime of Kim Jong-un of an arsenal capable of, for example, saturate the aerial defenses of South Korea through mass and simultaneous attacks. This change represents a strategic evolution for a country that until a few years ago operated outside the large global military production chains, but now emerges as a relevant actor in asymmetric technological warfare. “Other” world order. In short, the image of a giant factory where thousands of Russians and North Koreans come together In a Shahed drone assembly line, that Moscow-Pyongyang alliance at a new level. If you also want, it marks the emergence of an authoritarian axis not only military, but also economic and structuralthat frontally challenges the Western Alliances System. What doubt fits, if Russia manages to stabilize its forehead through Drones produced by mass With North Korean help and at the same time strengthens Pyongyang’s strategic capabilities in Asia, global security architecture will experience A dangerous mutation. Now it is not simply an exchange of resources for services, but the training of a Coordinated Interest Network With a shared narrative against the United States, Europe and its Asian allies. Image | KNCA, X. In Xataka | North Korea has been sending armament for months to Russia. In return, Russia is giving him what longs for her: a functional army In Xataka | Ukraine is surviving in the war thanks to the drones. Russia has an ally to change that: North Korea

60 -minute matches, without South Koreans and without knowing who wins

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If finally Kim Yong’s dreams are fulfilled and North Korea becomes a kind of Asian Benidormthe first foreign tourists who arrive can take some surprise. For example, if they sit on a terrace to take something and expect to see an international football match, it will be difficult for them to see the Spanish or the Italian league. There you only see the Premier League, although in its own way. Devotion for the Premier. It The Guardian counted this week in a report. For a country so suspicious of external influences As is North Korea, the nation seems unable to resist the attractiveness of football, and expressly of the Premier League of England, the most watched sport (and one of the few) on the country’s television screens. The result, as we will see, is a “medium” and little legal access to the parties, a viewing marked by strong restrictions, censorship and a significant delay in the transmissions, as detailed in An analysis of site 38 North. Delays and modifications. To start, Premier League broadcasts on North Korean television They are not live and are usually transmitted with considerable delay. For example, the first broadcast of the 2024-25 season began on January 13, with a match between the Ipswich and the Liverpool that had been played … 150 days before. There are more. The footage of each party is edited and reduced from the original 90 minutes one houreliminating pauses and politically inconvenient moments, whether advertising or other signal that the regime does not approve. Besides, Any graphic in English is replaced by signs in Koreanand the logos of foreign chains are blurred to hide their origin. Yes indeed, The Guardian told That, although in the past censorship came to hide advertising in the stadiums, this practice seems to have been abandoned. Another peculiarity is that The full season is not broadcast. In the 2023-24 season, for example, only 21 games were issued, and these were repeated in a loop on multiple occasions. In other words, the lack of a complete calendar prevents North Korean viewers know who wins the leaguesince the parties are not transmitted in chronological order. They leave that to the imagination of the spectators. No trace of the neighbor. The ideological filter of the Kim Jong-un regime is also reflected in the selection of the matches that are issued. The teams where South Korean soccer players play, such as Hwang Hee-chan (Wolverhampton), the super star are heung-min (Tottenham) or Kim Ji-Soo (Brentford), They do not appear in programming. Like the regime Consider South Korea its “hostile state number one”any reference to its athletes is excluded. And it is not new. This censorship has already been applied in previous tournaments. During the 2022 World Cup, KCTV transmitted all matches a few hours late, except the three matches of the group stage of South Korea and the confrontation between the United States and Wales. Of course, the regime did not hesitate to Show the elimination of South Korea at the hands of Brazil. And in the 2023 Asian Women’s Tournament, the North Korean TV graphics labeled South Korean players as “puppets.” And how do you access the North Korea signal? The nation It does not have the emission rights of the Premier League or the Champions, Which implies that the issuance of these parties should be a violation of international sanctions directed against the country’s nuclear and ballistic missile programs. The truth is that In the report it is not clear how KCTV obtains the recordingsbut it is presumed that it is material without license. In fact, in the past, North Korea also transmitted matches of the leagues of England, Germany, France, Spain and Italy, but Since 2023 he has reduced his approach to the Premier League, the Champions League and the World Cup. Soccer and propaganda. Although North Korean state television is dominated by News with revolutionary tone, war films and propaganda on the Kim dynastyfootball continues to represent one of the few moments of entertainment without an explicit ideological message. An obsession with football in the nation that is not new. North Korea reached the quarterfinals of the 1966 World Cup After beating Italy in a historic party, and His female team has won the U-20 World Cup up to three times. So, despite censorship and restrictions, football is still an escape valve for North Korean viewers. Even if they never get to know the Premier League champion. Image | (Stephan)38 North In Xataka | Kalma is the first real effort of North Korea to become a holiday place. For now only for Russians In Xataka | As the rent is crazy, a man devised a plan in a hotel in New York. He paid the first night and stayed for free five years

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