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Last Friday(8.10) Yonhap reported in the early afternoon(KST) the following: A North Korean delegation crossed the border into South Korea on Friday to take part in a planned inter-Korean workers' football match on the weekend, organizers said. The 64-member delegation, led by Ju Yong-gil, head of the General Federation of Trade Unions of Korea, arrived at the Customs, Immigration and Quarantine (CIQ) office in Paju, just south of the inter-Korean border... They were greeted by Kim Myoung-hwan and Kim Ju-young, heads of South Korea's two major umbrella labor groups - the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions (KCTU) and the Federation of Korean Trade Unions (FKTU), respectively...(more you can read here)

Subsequently the S. Korean media, especially the trade unions' press (노동과 희망/Work& Hope by FKTU, 노동과 세계/Work& World by KCTU) and so-called "progessive" internet magazines such as Voice of the People(민중의소리) published squeamish detailed reports about all moments of the three-day visit by the delegation from the North. Even the S. Korean bourgeois press - such as Korea Times - provided pretty much detailed reports about the event...

Contrary to the datailed daily reports in the S. Korean press, the North' state media "failed"(resp. refused!!) to report about the event. And after three days of silence today's Rodong Sinmun the "North and South Korean Workers' Union Football Tournament"...

...was mentioned on page 4(out of 6 daily pages) just as an MARGINAL NOTE!!

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