North Korean team Naegohyang won the Asian Champions League in South Korea

A win for North Korea means they will appear at next year’s FIFA Women’s Champions Cup, which features champions from each of the six continental confederations.

There were officially no supporters at Saturday’s game due to the travel ban between North and South Korea.

However, about 1,200 members of civic groups supported by Seoul’s Ministry of Unification participated in the finals.

Coach Ri and Kim, who scored the match-winning goal, later walked out of the press conference after a South Korean reporter asked them a question that referred to their country as “the North”.

“All our players were just focused on winning today’s match, putting in the effort while cherishing every minute and second,” explained Rhee.

“I had neither time nor space to concern myself with various other problems.”

In a speech before the semifinals, South Korean Unification Minister Chund Dong-yong said the game would set a “positive precedent” for inter-Korean relations.

The two Koreas are technically still at war after failing to sign a peace treaty when the Korean War ended in 1953.

Efforts have since been made to improve relations, but relations between the two countries have soured in recent years, with North Korea labeling South Korea its “worst enemy state” and saying it no longer seeks reconciliation.

South Korean President Lee Jae-myung, however, is looking to improve relations.