North Korea's World Cup Soccer Coach Reportedly Forced To Become A Construction Worker

Telegraph:

North Korea's football team has been shamed in a six-hour public inquisition and the team's coach has been accused of "betraying" the reclusive leader's heir apparent following their failure at the World Cup, according to reports.

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Comments

[undsoweiter]

10:03 PM on 07/31/2010

North Koreans are really going soft.

[ArjenBoatsma]

07:16 PM on 07/31/2010

He should have defected when he had the chance. Just like some other players that went "missing".

[TYRANNASAURUS]

05:42 PM on 07/31/2010

MUST BE GREAT TO BE ABLE TO GO INTO THE CONSTRUCTION BUSINESS RATHER THAN BEING PUT UP IN FRONT OF A FIRING SQUAD.

[Pedroia]

01:09 PM on 08/02/2010

If this was the mans calling, passion and dream, he may well prefer death. The punishment is designed to humiliate him and make existence unbearable.

[Caymus77]

04:43 PM on 07/31/2010

He's lucky that he wasn't shot.

Losing world cup soccer coaches are an endangered species.

[writerjohnny]

12:12 PM on 07/31/2010

From the headline you'd think that getting "forced" to doing "construction work" is on a par with getting sent to Dante's Inferno. Fist of all there are literally millions of Americans who would beg for a construction job right now. More to the point there are about 9 million productive construction workers in the US and they are not being "forced" in any way. What planet do the headline writers live on?

[Nym22]

12:41 PM on 07/31/2010

I don't think many Americans would beg for a construction worker's job in North Korea.

[Jsfly]

09:45 AM on 08/02/2010

Maybe they should force YOU to be a construction worker in North Korea and see how you like it...

[castleblanca]

10:41 AM on 07/31/2010

Pretend you are a teenage boy or girl in the DPRK, and you are approached by the authorities and offered a position on a sports team, which will possibly compete internationally.

Knowing sports precedents from the past, what do you do?

[LiberalLee]

10:41 AM on 07/31/2010

Goodness.
I'd heard that His Supreme Weirdliness was using his Super-powers to telepathically direct the coach during the games. Shouldn't that make His Imperial Nuttiness responsible?
Can the Little Kim Clan get any fruitier?

[poster1122]

07:50 PM on 07/31/2010

Rule #1: Dear Leader only directs them when they're successful. When they're not, it's always someone else's fault.

[PigsOnSoma]

07:04 AM on 07/31/2010

I suppose it's better than being gunned down in Columbia for similar things.

And why is this shocking - oh, that's right, in America if you run one business into the ground it's a sure thing they'll give you a CEO position in the next company. And we wonder how things got this far.

[Snapper Snap]

01:33 AM on 07/31/2010

Maybe they should have sent the Coach to the U.S. Then he can "suffer" the extended unemployment checks that so many liberals love.

[Caymus77]

04:45 PM on 07/31/2010

Liberals love unemployment checks?? Have you ever collected unemployment?

Liberals love decent paying jobs.

[hotheaded]

01:31 AM on 07/31/2010

note to self: don't play soccer for north korea...ever.

[FirstBiteBooks]

02:26 AM on 08/01/2010

Unless you are in the construction business and are loving it. :)

[AirViceMarshalPark]

01:29 AM on 07/31/2010

He's building a gallows.

[Dalmatio]

11:27 PM on 07/30/2010

Wow. It just hit me how blessed i am for having my freedom as given to me by God alone. I pray for the good people of North Korea who (by no fault of their own but by just being born there)are languishing in the hands of a dictator.

[bluntobject]

09:55 PM on 07/30/2010

LOL! I am surprised he wasn't executed!!! Like one of their Government officials recently.

[isaidit]

11:50 PM on 07/30/2010

Too right. This is a pleasant surprise. I was expecting him and the whole squad to face execution. What they call over there "The Penalty Shootout With Ooomph." At least coachy can whistle at dishy Korean women during his lunch hour. Good on him.

[Talossa]

01:10 AM on 07/31/2010

Kim Jong-Il is getting soft in his dotage.

[blackgrl71]

08:27 PM on 07/30/2010

Has there been any confirmation that he's alive following the total drubbing in the World Cup???

[LMPE]

06:57 PM on 07/30/2010

What? No executions? Dear Leader seems to have wimped out.

[isaidit]

11:52 PM on 07/30/2010

Ol Kim Jong is losing his touch. And I was going to nominate him to play the Queen of Hearts in the production of Alice planned for this Fall in Santa Fe. Now, I'm not so sure.