North Korea has a lot of problems — desperate North Koreans have been crossing into China and killing Chinese for their food, for instance — and among the less serious ones is the dearth of fans at its international soccer games. Before the ongoing Asian Cup in Australia, organizers tried to drum up support among any North Koreans living in the country, "but the lines of communication quickly went dead," says Joe Gorman at The Guardian. He continues:
To fill the void, the North Koreans are being supported at the Asian Cup by a motley crew of inner-city hipsters looking for an appropriately ironic team to follow, whack-job communists still raging against the dying light of Marxism-Leninism, cheapskates taking advantage of the cut-price tickets (and I mean cut-price — you can get into North Korean group matches for a tenner), and, most curiously of all, the South Korean reunificationists. [Guardian]
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