The North Korean Men's Soccer Team Are Absolute Demons in The Handshake Line

I love when North Korea finds their way into "major" sporting events. Or any sort of competition at all. You never quite know what they're bringing to the table, but sometimes North Korea will surprise you with a little athletic competence. The North Koreans will sneak up on ya. Their men's soccer team made the World Cup in 2010. They played Brazil within a goal.

Then you have all the intrigue of "Is their Supreme Leader going to kill them if they don't win?", and "Are North Korean citizens back home even allowed to watch this game? Or is Kim Jong going to tell his people they won the World Cup no matter what happens?" 

I'm not entirely convinced North Korea's soccer team even knows they lost to Brazil that day. There's a chance they were told that their last minute goal counted for 3 points. Those are the fun things I wonder about whenever I see North Korea competing vs another country. And those "handshakes" vs Japan... that was pretty funny North Korea. You got a chuckle out of me. 

Shoutout Japan. There's nothing Japan loves more than dunking on the rest of the world with respectfulness. There can't be more than a handful of teams who don't turn that handshake line into a full blown team-on-team fist fight.

And shoutout North Korea for their very matching, and very state-approved haircuts. Pre-apologies for the upcoming racism, but once North Koreas goalie (the guy in blue) passes through the line… it's just a bunch of carbon copies of the same person. Exact same haircuts. Same eyebrows. All winding up and punching their Japanese opponents fists with their fists as hard as they can. There was honestly a moment I thought this might be bad AI and after the 3rd North Korean, Claude got lazy and spit out 10 of the exact same person. 

While I'm on the topic of North Korean athletes, is there a Michael Jordan of North Koreans? Like, an undisputed greatest North Korean athlete to ever live (aside than Kim Jong-Il with his 38-under par at Pyongyang Golf Course + perfect 300 the first time he ever went bowling)? Would it technically be Dennis Rodman?

When I Google "best North Korean athlete ever" it's mostly Olympic weightlifters. Apparently a guy named "Om Yun-chol is widely considered the best North Korean athlete ever due to his dominant career highlight by an Olympic gold and 5 World Championships. There's also a Kye Sun-hui who won Olympic gold in Judo in 1996. Hong Un-jong won a gold in Gymnastics (Vault) in 2008.

Alright that's all I got. I mostly just thought it was a funny handshake line. North Korea went on to lose that game 1-0. However, their women's team seems like they might actually be kind of legitimate.