Women's National Team
Unlike the men's team, the women's squad consists entirely of North Korea-born Koreans. It is much more successful than its male counterpart, reaching the quarter-finals of the last FIFA Women's World Cup in 2007 and winning the AFC Women's Asian Cup in 2008.
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