Mun Il Guk’s goal in the first half of play was all it took for the North Korean national football team to defeat a talented Saudi squad at the Kim Il Sung Stadium in Pyongyang yesterday. The well deserved win jumps North Korea into sole possession of second place during Group Two preliminary play in Asia – just one point behind neighboring South Korea.
The top two teams of each division advance to the 2010 FIFA World Cup which will be held in South Africa. North Korea has failed to qualify for the World Cup since its historic run in 1966 where they were defeated by Portugal in the quarter-finals.