An Yong Hak to cheer for his former team at the 2010 World Cup in Tokyo

An Yong Hak to cheer for his former team at the 2010 World Cup in Tokyo

FRANCE 24 English

An Yong Hak was born and raised in Japan but he will be cheering for his former team North Korea when the two sides clash in a World Cup qualifier in Tokyo on Thursday. An is one of roughly 300,000 ethnic Koreans living in Japan, a group that has long suffered discrimination in areas such as employment and social welfare. He attended a pro-Pyongyang school in Japan and played 40 times in midfield for North Korea, facing Cristiano Ronaldo, Kaka and Yay

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