This chapter explores the rivalry between South Korea and North Korea's women's football teams, highlighting the North Korean team's consistent success and their victory in a specific match. It delves into the gender dynamics in North Korea's society, discussing the women's role as the primary productive force and their achievements in sports despite facing a deeply patriarchal society.
The singular focus on the metaverse of Mark Zuckerberg, Meta’s boss, fretted investors. But in the past year he has pulled off a spectacularly timely turnaround. We look at what is driving an illegal-gold rush in Venezuela as a lens on a wider, regional concern (9:48). And why North Korea’s women’s football team provides such good propaganda (16:48).
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