Now for South Korea? North Korea reaches World Cup finals
Forty-three years after success in England, North returns to
football's big stage World Cup England 1966 Italy v North Korea
Ayresome Park Jubilant North Korea players leave the pitch after
their sensational 1-0 win against Italy in the 1966 World Cup.
Photograph: PA /PA  It could be a genuine game of two halves.
Forty-three years after they stunned the world by reaching the
quarter-finals in England in 1966, North Korea have qualified
for the World Cup finals - setting up the tantalising
possibility of a match with South Korea.  Having played out a
0-0 draw in Saudi Arabia, the North Korean team is now preparing
for next summer's finals in South Africa.  A North Korean
victory over the old enemy or its other great nemesis, the US -
who are on the verge of qualification - would be exploited for
every last ounce of propaganda value in Pyongyang.  But more
realistically, the average North Korean will have little or no
idea of what transpires in South Af