Tears in North Korea as Kim Jong-un meets footballers after historic title win

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un personally greeted the country’s AFC Women’s Champions League winners in Pyongyang earlier this week. Video broadcast by state media on Tuesday showed Kim embracing and posing for photographs with the players as they wept with joy and leapt in celebration. Naegohyang Women’s FC clinched Asia’s top club title with a 1-0 defeat of Tokyo Verdy Beleza of Japan in the final in Suwon on May 23.