SUWON, South Korea - Heavy rain poured down on Suwon Sports Complex on Wednesday evening as hundreds of football fans gathered to watch the first match played by a North Korean sports team on South Korean soil in more than seven years.
North Korea's Naegohyang Women's FC faced South Korea's Suwon FC Women in an Asian Football Confederation Women's Champions League semifinal in Suwon, about 30 kilometers from Seoul, marking the first visit by North Korean athletes to the South since a table tennis delegation in December 2018.
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