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A South Korean television network has accused North Korea of illegally showing matches from South Africa to its isolated populace.
North Korea’s state-run Central Television has shown replays of four World Cup games, including the opening match between South Africa and Mexico, and a Saturday match in which South Korea defeated Greece 2-0.
The replay of the South Korea-Greece game was shown on Monday evening, with occasionally favorable commentary on the skills of South Korean players.
The South Korean television network SBS said that it had acquired the sole right from the World Cup organizer, FIFA, to broadcast the games throughout the Korean Peninsula and that it was investigating whether North Korea has pirated its signals.
North Korea’s taped replays did not carry the audio or graphics from the original footage, making it difficult to tell whose transmission it had copied.
North Korea’s soccer team qualified for the World Cup this year for the first time since 1966, when it reached the quarterfinals.
South Korea placed fourth in the 2002 World Cup, for which it and Japan were co-hosts.
North Korea’s first match will be on Tuesday when it plays the 2002 champion, Brazil.
North Korea’s coach, Kim Jong-hun, said in a news conference on Monday at Ellis Park stadium in Johannesburg, where the team will play Tuesday, that the match would be shown in his country. But he did not clarify whether it would be shown live.
North Korea illegally used some South Korean coverage of the 2002 World Cup, but in 2006 it made an arrangement to obtain television coverage legally from a South Korean network.
SBS said it had been negotiating with North Korea to pick up its signals, but the talks fell through amid mounting tensions over the March 26 sinking of a South Korean warship.
A multinational investigation concluded that a North Korean torpedo had sunk the ship, killing 46 South Korean soldiers.
The sinking has chilled the relationship between the two countries to its lowest point in years.
The two countries bickered about the sinking on Monday at the United Nations Security Council, with the North accusing Seoul of fabricating the episode.
Some activists from the South are said to be planning a protest inside the stadium over the sinking during the North Korean match.
Even if North Korea has pirated SBS transmissions of this year’s games, there is really no way for the South to punish the North because since the ship sinking, the two countries have severed almost all official ties.
In general, South Koreans think that exposing the isolated North to international sports events will help the country open up.
Years ago, the South broadcast such events across the border as part of its propaganda campaign against the North.
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