North Korea calls South Korea's national soccer team 'puppets'

``In the competition, our team defeated the puppet team by an overwhelming score of 4 to 1.''
This is a report on the results of the women's soccer quarterfinals of the Asian Games held on the 30th of last month. "Our country's team" refers to North Korea's national women's soccer team, and "puppet team"
refers to the South Korean women's national soccer team. In state-run media such as newspapers, television, and radio in North Korea, the term ``South Korea'' (meaning South Korea) has recently been dropped, and the term ``puppet'' has been used instead.
It turns out that the word has become a fixed expression referring to the Korean government. As the confrontation between North and South increases, it is analyzed that North Korea is looking down on the South Korean government and is trying to strengthen its hostility towards South Korea.
Ru. “Puppet” is a word that means a puppet, and the North Korean dictionary says that it is “a person who is enslaved by foreign invaders, including imperialists, and who becomes their subordinate and destroys their homeland. and sell the people
"a political group of ethnic rebels or such people". The last time the term "South Korea" appeared in Rodong Sinmun, the official newspaper of the Korean Workers' Party, was on September 13th.
Recently, the Rodong Sinmun newspaper has been calling South Korea a "puppet region." The term ``South Korea'' was last used on Korean Central Television and radio station Korea Central Broadcasting on July 15. Also, in Korea
The last time the term ``South Korea'' was used in the Central News Agency was on August 16.